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.
BUFFALO BILLAfter crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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