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.
BUFFALO BILLIndians 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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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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