 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. |
| 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. |
| My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. |
| Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa. |
| Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt. |
| 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. |
| Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. |
| Washington newspaper men know everything. |
| My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. |
| 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. |
| Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. |
