Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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