It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
BUFFALO BILLMy first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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