My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
BUFFALO BILLIt 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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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