The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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