Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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.
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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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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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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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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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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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