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.

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

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

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

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.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

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