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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Enemy Fire Moments Order Shoot War Weapon
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Brother Death Favorite Himself
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
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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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
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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Moments Sorry Yourself
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Happiness Home Myself Wife
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Heart Myself Place
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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Animal Greatness Kill Myself Ride Shoot
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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Fight Kill Knowledge Man Myself Personal Time
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself
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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Eat Fire Myself Water
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Animal Command Death Kill Myself
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Food Invitation Myself
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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Actor Combination Myself Organization Road Security
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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Beginning Break Build Expectation Goodness Oneself Place
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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Alcohol Investment Money Profit
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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Body Death Kill Literature Pieces Place Surprise
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Home Myself Spirit
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Break Death Man Sick
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Bone Man People Race Time
But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Adventure Blood Father Love
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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Feeling Man Myself Travel
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Beginning Myself Thinking Time

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

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