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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
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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 mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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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.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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.
Buffalo Bill