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.
BUFFALO BILLMy first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Wild 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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