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.
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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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