Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
BUFFALO BILLWith 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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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