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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.

Buffalo Bill

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Enemy Myself Risk Run
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Better Day Expression Ourselves Time
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
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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Actor Combination Myself Organization Road Security
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Break Government Myself Promise Result
I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Destiny Life Myself Path
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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Feeling Fight Proud War
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Break Death Man Sick
But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Adventure Blood Father Love
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Bone Man People Race Time
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
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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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself

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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