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.
BUFFALO BILLYou 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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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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 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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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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