Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
BUFFALO BILLMy debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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