As A Good Horse Is Not Very

My Wife Was Delighted With The Home I Had Given Her Amid The Prairies Of The Far West.

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.

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.

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.

Indians Were Frequently Off Their Reservations.