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.
BUFFALO BILLBut 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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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