Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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