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BUFFALO BILLIt was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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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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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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 first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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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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