Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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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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.
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