We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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.
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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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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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