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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.

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.

Some Days I Would Go Without Any Fire At All, And Eat Raw Frozen Meat And Melt Snow In My Mouth For Water.

Springfield Has Always Had A Place In My Heart.

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.