I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
BUFFALO BILLThe cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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