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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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 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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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