A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Gen. N. a. M. DudleyNoted Indian-fighler 54 BLAZING THE WESTWARD WAY then held a council to consider andmature a plan for capturing it. Weknew full well that the Indians wouldoutnumber us at least three to one,and perhaps more. Upon the adviceand suggestion of Wild Bill, it wasfinally decided that we should waituntil it was nearly dark, and thenafter creeping as close to them aspossible, make a dash through theircamp, open a general fire on them,and the
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Gen. N. a. M. DudleyNoted Indian-fighler 54 BLAZING THE WESTWARD WAY then held a council to consider andmature a plan for capturing it. Weknew full well that the Indians wouldoutnumber us at least three to one,and perhaps more. Upon the adviceand suggestion of Wild Bill, it wasfinally decided that we should waituntil it was nearly dark, and thenafter creeping as close to them aspossible, make a dash through theircamp, open a general fire on them,and then stampede the horses. This plan, at the proper time, wasvery successfully executed. The dashupon the enemy was a complete sur-prise to them. They were so over-come with astonishment that theydid not know what to make of could not have astounded themany more had we dropped down intotheir camp from the clouds. Theydid not recover from the surprise ofthis sudden charge until after we hadridden pell-mell througli their campand got away with our own horses aswell as theirs. We at once circled thehorses around toward the south, and \f.
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