I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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