The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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My 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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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