I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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