I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

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

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.

Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking.

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

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