But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLI 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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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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 had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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