After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
BUFFALO BILLI found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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