Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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 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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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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 began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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