I had no time to think it over.

Selecting a good pony out of the stables I was soon on my way.
I arrived at Rocky Ridge, the end of the new route, on schedule time, and turning back came on to Red Buttes, my starting-place.

The round trip was 320 miles, and I made it in twenty-one hours and forty minutes.
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

One day as I was leaving Horse Creek, a party of fifteen Indians jammed me in a sand ravine eight miles west of the station.

They fired at me repeatedly, but my luck held, and I went unscathed.