My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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.
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