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.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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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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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 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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