My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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