I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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