I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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 had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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