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.
BUFFALO BILLMy brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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