The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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 has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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 said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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