General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLWe got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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