Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLI 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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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