I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
BUFFALO BILLBut the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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