Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILLEvery Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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 had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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