Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

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 Indians had now become so bad and had stolen so much stock that it was decided to stop the pony express for at least six weeks.

In 1906 the Czechs were already applauding the famous circus of the Wild West hero William Frederick Cody, better known as

He herded cattle and worked as a driver on a wagon train, crossing the Great Plains several times,

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

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.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

Indians were frequently off their reservations.