The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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 felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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