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

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

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

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

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.

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