Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

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.

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

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

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