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.
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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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