General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLThe greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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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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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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 felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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