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.
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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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 wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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