Buffalo Bill

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

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. ”

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

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. ”

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. ”

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. ”

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. ”

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. ”

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. ”

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is. ”