Indians were frequently off their reservations.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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 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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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