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.
BUFFALO BILLWild 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 love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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