The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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 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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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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