My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILLThe first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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