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The Free State men, myself amo...

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Buffalo Bill 107 quotes

The first trip of the Pony Exp...

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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The first presentation of my s...

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

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The Confederates had suspected...

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

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The cholera had broken out at ...

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

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The audience, upon learning th...

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

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Stations were built at interva...

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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Springfield has always had a p...

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

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Some days I would go without a...

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

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So for twelve miles I rode wit...

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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My mother's sympathies were st...

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 great forte in killing buff...

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.

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It was my effort, in depicting...

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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It was because of my great int...

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.

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I was persuaded now that I was...

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

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I could never resist the call ...

I could never resist the call of the trail.

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Frontiersmen good and bad, gun...

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.

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Excitement was plentiful durin...

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

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Every Indian outbreak that I h...

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

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But the West of the old times,...

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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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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