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 BILLThe McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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 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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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