The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLQuick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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 love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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