Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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 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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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