It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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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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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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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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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 got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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