The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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 the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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