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.
BUFFALO BILLI 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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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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 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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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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 brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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