I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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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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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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