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.
BUFFALO BILLThe cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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