The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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My 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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