Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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.
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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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