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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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 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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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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