My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
BUFFALO BILLMy debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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