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.
BUFFALO BILLWith 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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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I 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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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