I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
BUFFALO BILLI had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
BUFFALO BILLBut the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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.
BUFFALO BILLMy first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
BUFFALO BILLI had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
BUFFALO BILLSome days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLI could never resist the call of the trail.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLEvery Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
BUFFALO BILLWashington newspaper men know everything.
BUFFALO BILLWe 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.
BUFFALO BILLOn 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.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
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