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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Buffalo Bill

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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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
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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Better Day Expression Ourselves Time
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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Battle Character Lonely Mindset Myself Old Strong Time
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Complete Live Man Power
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Heart Myself Place
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Happiness Home Myself Wife
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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Body Death Kill Literature Pieces Place Surprise
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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Greatness Himself History Myself Time Wonderful Writing
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Break Government Myself Promise Result
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Enemy Myself Risk Run
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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Character Himself Man Strange Word
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service
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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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Information Man Media
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

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