I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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