On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

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 better time.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

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

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

I could never resist the call of the trail.