I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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 love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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