My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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