We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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 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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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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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