Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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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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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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