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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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