My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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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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