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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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