The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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