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 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.

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

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

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

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.

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