The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
BUFFALO BILLMy 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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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