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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.

Buffalo Bill

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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Greatness Himself History Myself Time Wonderful Writing
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Enemy Myself Risk Run
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Action Freedom Kill
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Character Personal Student
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Destiny Life Myself Path
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
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service
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
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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Body Death Kill Literature Pieces Place Surprise
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Food Invitation Myself
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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Feeling Fight Proud War
I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
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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Body Father Friendship Help Himself Home Mortal Myself Ride Wound
My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Appearance Myself Time World
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
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
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
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
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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Beginning Break Build Expectation Goodness Oneself Place
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Heart Myself Place
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Break Government Myself Promise Result
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Better Day Expression Ourselves Time
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
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
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 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

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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