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I could never resist the call of the trail.

Buffalo Bill

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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Animal Greatness Kill Myself Ride Shoot
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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Bad Future Goodness Live Man Myself Weapon
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Bone Man People Race Time
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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Eat Fire Myself Water
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Appearance Myself Time World
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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Alcohol Investment Money Profit
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave
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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Battle Character Lonely Mindset Myself Old Strong Time
Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Information Man Media
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Destiny Life Myself Path
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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Greatness Himself History Myself Time Wonderful Writing
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Food Invitation Myself
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service

I could never resist the call of the trail.

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