My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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