But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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 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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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