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.
BUFFALO BILLI found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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