After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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