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.
BUFFALO BILLAs 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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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 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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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 had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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