Indians were frequently off their reservations.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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 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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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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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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