My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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