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.
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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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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