The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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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 and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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