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.
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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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