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.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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 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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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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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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