My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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Stations 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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