I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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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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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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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