I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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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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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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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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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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