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.
BUFFALO BILLAs a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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