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.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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