I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
BUFFALO BILLWild 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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 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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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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