The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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 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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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