The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLWild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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