I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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