The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILLMy debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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.
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