My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
BUFFALO BILLMy wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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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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