I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
BUFFALO BILLQuick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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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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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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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