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Cody could do nothing but sit quietly on his pony.
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As he approached the end of the valley, which narrowed into a point, he saw that some of the Indians on the slopes were riding down to cut off his track.
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Yet he gave up his ambition for his mother. Bill promised his mother that he would never go to war as long as she was alive, but that as he must do something to earn money, he had to go to work at once.
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In that time he rode twenty one ponies and made the longest trip ever made by a Pony Express rider.
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Always keeping a keen watch, he suddenly saw above the top of a pile of rocks something that he knew was not put there by nature.
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There was nothing to do but pull up and await events.
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Thus the boy did seventy miles every day for three months.
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It was a natural contingency for a young man brought up as he had been brought up.
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Some of these stations were in settlements, some were in towns, but most of them were on the bleak prairies or in the hills of the Rocky Mountains.
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He said it was down by the stream.
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These men-now on the Southern side-heard of his journey and laid in ambush by a stream in a gulch where it was necessary for him to cross on account of the ford.
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He kept on at his furious pace until he was within rifle shot.
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Mounting his pony, Cody then dashed down the ravine.
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The horseman was to ride up to this shanty, jump to the ground with his bag of letters, immediately jump on the fresh pony, and rush along another fifteen miles to a similar station.
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One day, however, having made the run out of seventy six miles, he found, when he arrived at his last station, that the man who was supposed to carry the bag to the next station, a distance of eighty five miles, had been wounded by Indians.
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So in the twenty pounds there were hundreds of letters.
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It was an exciting time when the first pony was ready and saddled at the offices of Russell, Majors and Waddell, in saint Joseph.
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Such experiences as this followed one after another, until in eighteen sixty three, with the Civil War in full progress, Cody, then seventeen years old, received word that his mother was dying.
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They received about one hundred and twenty five dollars a month, which was very high pay.
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There he was safe, because the other three were not mounted.
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He turned out to be a famous character of the plains named "California Joe," and on seeing the young boy he immediately asked him if he were not Bill Cody.
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On one of these trips he came upon a group of horses tied near a stream, and hearing voices in a dugout cave near by, he went to investigate.
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There were no signs, however, of an attacking party, and, coming up to the shanty, he found one of the men whom he had shot dying there alone.
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The boy wanted to go.
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Sometimes in order to keep up the schedule the men were obliged to cover twenty five miles in an hour on flat country, in order to make up for slower going in the hills.
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He reached his first station on time, dismounted, and mounted a fresh pony which was standing ready, and started on the second relay.
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It was an average of two hundred miles a day, or between eight and nine miles an hour for every hour of the twenty four for ten days, including all stops and all delays.
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At this time the Pony Express had to be stopped for some time on account of the number of Indians who were lying in wait all along the trails to capture the riders, and so the boy was once more out of a job.
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The outlaw was careless enough to approach the pony from the front, and as he got within reach the young horseman by a trick that he had used many times before made the pony rear so suddenly that his fore foot struck the man in the head and knocked him senseless.
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They supposed him to be an advance scout in search of themselves, and for a few moments there was a quick play of wit against wit.
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He pointed backward.
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But always alert, always on the watch for every opportunity, in a situation that, young as he was, he had been in many times before, he kept a keen eye on the man while appearing to submit.
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The only thing to do was to ride on as quietly as possible and try to make the ford.
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Bill turned the corner of some rocks and, dismounting, gave the pony a slap and sent him tearing down the ravine, while he himself hid in the bushes and watched the whole party tear by in the pursuit of the riderless horse.
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Whatever money was carried was in paper, and one Eastern newspaper printed a special edition on tissue paper for use only on this famous Pony Express.
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Those two thousand miles of waste land consumed a month or more when transportation was by means of bull trains.
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He then calmly walked back to the station at Horseshoe and told of the adventure.
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They asked him where he came from.
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They hid their horses in a clump of trees and went to a cabin near the ford to wait for his arrival.
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In a moment the whole party were after him.
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That made one continuous route of three hundred and twenty two miles out and back without stopping.
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At the end of a few months the work proved too severe for him to continue, and he was laid off as supernumerary-that is, a man who could be called on to ride in any emergency.
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He went immediately to their home, and arrived in time to see his mother before she died.
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They asked where his horse was.
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A large crowd gathered long before the appointed time for starting, and when the pony was brought forth he was greeted with cheers.
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And within an hour he was ready again for the rider coming from the direction of San Francisco.
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And so with the third, until he finished his thirty five miles and threw the bag to the next man, who was waiting.
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He said he would, volunteering, with the keenness of men whose lives are always at stake, to leave his gun with them.
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But the others were firing now, and so Cody fell forward across his horse and was lucky enough to make the other side of the stream.
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It required in the men the hardest kind of physique and endurance, in the ponies surefootedness as well as swiftness.
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The mail pouches were waterproof, and once locked at saint Joseph, Missouri, they were not opened until they were delivered in sacramento california, two thousand miles away.
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There was no time for thought, and Bill immediately reached for his revolver, but upon seeing him the man dropped his rifle and came forward.
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Still he spurred the horse on, turned again and shot another.
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He became a supernumerary again, and as there were days in which he had nothing to do, he was in the habit of going out hunting, selling the skins of the animals he shot.
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That journey, where the mail bags were thrown across the ponies and carried by a number of riders, took ten days to do the two thousand miles.
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Without any other object than the natural instinct to find the reason for everything that presented itself, he quietly dismounted, followed the trail, and found the five horses.
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He must be as alert and as good a frontiersman in the knowledge of Indian warfare as he was a good horseman.
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Darkness came on before he reached the spot, and as by this time the young man had acquired the habit of absolutely observing everything at all times about him, he soon discovered the fresh tracks of horses.
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This run was from Red Buttes to a place called Three Crossings, and the distance was seventy six miles.
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His chance came with an opportunity to join a group of men who will be read about as long as there is any history of the United States.
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Close upon time the man appeared.
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The bullet went where the rider should have been, but it missed by the swerve which he had caused the pony to make.
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It turned out that the men were a group of prairie ruffians.
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Then he began his return trip of forty five miles.
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When the scout returned with answers to the dispatches he became very wary as he approached the ford.
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As soon as he had the mail he mounted a fresh pony and rode back over the same thirty five miles.
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However, the time came.
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In order to get as much mail within the twenty pounds as possible letters were written on tissue paper.
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But that gave the promoters of the scheme their choice among the best men of the frontier.
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And now it became a ride for life.
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He went to Fort Laramie and looked up a man named Slade, who was agent of the line there.
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The trail was the same as that used by the freight bull trains.
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Unbinding his legs, Bill forced him to mount his own horse, and then strapped him on.
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The boy, as they reached the horse, carelessly said that he had shot some game and would pick it up, in the meantime asking the men to lead his horse on ahead.
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It was not long, however, before he made application for another job on the Pony Express.
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Then, too, his fame as a plainsman was well known, and it reached military headquarters long before he himself arrived.
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THE PONY EXPRESS RIDER
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Cody said he would, and started away at breakneck pace.
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Sometimes it was up rocky gulches or through forests where the riding was hard.
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He did not stop or turn.
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The bull train stations were of course used, but it was necessary to increase the number of stations.
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Sometimes the country was open and moderately easy for riding.
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Young Cody knew enough to know that the man had what was called the "drop" on him.
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The longest division was two hundred and fifty miles.
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He found him a few rods away, and when he got back his opponent had come to.
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At the time when the Civil War broke out Cody was too young to enlist.
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That allayed suspicion for the moment, but they even went so far as to send two of their number with him.
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Out sprang two warriors, and a party of Indians appeared from a little distance further away.
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It was some time before the boy had any incident other than the ordinary episodes of the long ride.
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He watched his opportunity, and luckily for him those Indians had no rifles.
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Here again, as many times before and after, the boy's instinctive knowledge and immediate perception of anything, no matter how small, that was unusual or unnatural on the plains saved his life.
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Bill knew that somewhere in the vicinity the highwayman had a horse.
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But the average was a distance of forty five miles; that is, the man who rode one of these divisions of the two thousand miles, rode fifteen miles on one pony, fifteen miles on the second, and fifteen miles on the third.
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Their idea was that a man should mount a swift pony, well tried for his endurance before starting; that this man should ride fifteen miles straight out into the desert, and that at the end of the fifteen miles there should be a station, a house with a couple of men in it, who would have another pony ready.
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It was evident that there were five men near by watching for him.
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Through most of the whole route there was constant danger of a "hold up" either from Indians or from outlaws, who knew that the bag frequently contained money.
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But endurance was not the only quality the rider must have.
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It was a white man-a desperado of the plains.
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Some of the divisions were longer than others.
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It was a little speck of color, and long before any average human being would have seen it at all he knew that it was a feather in the headdress of an Indian in war paint.
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