General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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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 had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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