Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLOn 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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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