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" The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily. "

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" Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. "

" Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. "

" The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. "

" 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. "

" I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. "

" I could never resist the call of the trail. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. "

" Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. "

" 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. "

" Washington newspaper men know everything. "

" My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. "

" Indians were frequently off their reservations. "

" General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. "

" I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. "

" But the love of adventure was in father's blood. "