The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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