Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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