Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLOn 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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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 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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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