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.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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 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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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