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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 first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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 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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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