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 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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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