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

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

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

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

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.

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