The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILLStations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 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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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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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