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

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

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 love of adventure was in father's blood.

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

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

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.