Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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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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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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