Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
From Buffalo Bill
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.
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.
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.
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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.
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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 debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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