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" After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. "
Stream
Safe
Cross
" 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. "
Own
Bank
Horse
" But the love of adventure was in father's blood. "
Father
Adventure
Blood
" 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. "
Strong
Battles
Loneliness
" Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. "
Government
Promises
Known
" Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. "
Service
Two
Excitement
" 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. "
Men
Living
Know
" General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. "
Character
General
Personal
" I could never resist the call of the trail. "
Never
Resist
Trail
" 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. "
Only
Man
West
" I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. "
Made
Ever
Horse
" Indians were frequently off their reservations. "
Off
Were
Reservations
" 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. "
Development
Belief
Great
" I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. "
Now
Lead
Destined
" My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa. "
Stage
Debut
February
" 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. "
Behind
Horse
Riding
" My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. "
Allow
Home
Restless
" My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. "
West
Her
Home
" Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. "
Eat
Water
Snow
" The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. "
Real
Audience
Learning
" The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily. "
Dying
Broken
Daily
" 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. "
Trip
Time
Day
" 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. "
Life
Man
Sitting
" Washington newspaper men know everything. "
Know
Newspaper
Washington
" 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. "
More
Whiskey
Same
" 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. "
You
Peaceful
Fire
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