The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLThe McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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 and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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