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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.

Buffalo Bill

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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Beginning Break Build Expectation Goodness Oneself Place
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Animal Command Death Kill Myself
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Break Government Myself Promise Result
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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Character Himself Man Strange Word
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Bone Man People Race Time
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning
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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Bad Future Goodness Live Man Myself Weapon
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Feeling Nation Patriot Proud Respect
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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Feeling Man Myself Travel
I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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Eat Fire Myself Water
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Feeling Myself River Safety
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Frequent Reservation

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