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.
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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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