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.

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

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

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

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.

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