The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them..

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes..

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..

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise..

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them..

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

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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man..

I could never resist the call of the trail..

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be..

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

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

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the roa….

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845..

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 b….

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 h….

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

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 ….

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

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

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….