Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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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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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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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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