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.
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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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