We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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We 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.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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