Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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 began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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