Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLWild 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Quick 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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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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