The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLMy first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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