My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
BUFFALO BILLI felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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 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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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