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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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 and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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