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.
BUFFALO BILLI had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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