The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILLExcitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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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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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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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