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.
BUFFALO BILLThe cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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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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