I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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