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.
BUFFALO BILLThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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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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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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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Stations 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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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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