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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.

Buffalo Bill

I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
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
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Death Fell Quick Stranger Weapon
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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Battle Character Lonely Mindset Myself Old Strong Time
My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Appearance Myself Time World
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
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
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
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
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Feeling Myself River Safety
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
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Feeling Nation Patriot Proud Respect
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
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself

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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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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