Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

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

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

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