On 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.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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