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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.

Buffalo Bill

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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Animal Greatness Kill Myself Ride Shoot
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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Alcohol Investment Money Profit
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Break Death Man Sick
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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Moments Sorry Yourself
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Happiness Home Myself Wife
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Enemy Fire Moments Order Shoot War Weapon
My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Appearance Myself Time World
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Adventure Blood Father Love
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Character Personal Student
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Animal Command Death Kill Myself
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Feeling Myself River Safety
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Beginning Myself Thinking Time
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
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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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Action Freedom Kill
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Brother Death Favorite Himself
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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Battle Character Lonely Mindset Myself Old Strong Time
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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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Information Man Media
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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Bad Future Goodness Live Man Myself Weapon
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Feeling Nation Patriot Proud Respect
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave

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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