The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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 Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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