The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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 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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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