My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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 said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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 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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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