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.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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 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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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