After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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