The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLI 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 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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