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.
BUFFALO BILLHaving 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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