Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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

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.

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

Washington newspaper men know everything.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.