I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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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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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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The 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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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 wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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