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.
BUFFALO BILLEvery Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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