Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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