My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
BUFFALO BILLWe 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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With 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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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