General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLMy first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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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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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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