My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
BUFFALO BILLStations 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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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