The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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 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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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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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