The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLSome 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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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