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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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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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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 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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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