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.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

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

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

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.