We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting 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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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