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- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
- Buffalo
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
- Iowa
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- Nov 07, 2020
My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
- Free State
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington newspaper men know everything.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Benefiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
- Blotted
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Broken Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never resist the call of the trail.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Circling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020