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.
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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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