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.
BUFFALO BILLThe McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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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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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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