I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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