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.
BUFFALO BILLI 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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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 had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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