I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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