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.
BUFFALO BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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