We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILLI felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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