We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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