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"I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them."
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"The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers."
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"I perform for soldiers because they are important,'"
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"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."
Killing
"I began to think my time had come, as the saying is."
Time
"Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider."
Excitement
"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."
Beginning
"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 road."
Actor
"Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt."
Killing
"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
Love
"With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound."
Home
"The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers."
Soldiers
"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."
Government
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