My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
BUFFALO BILLWild 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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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