The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
BUFFALO BILLMy wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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On 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 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.
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