Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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