Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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