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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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