The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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