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.
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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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