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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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