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.
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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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