My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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