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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: Avoided Complete Confident Discovery Giving Had Scouts Sioux Surprise Them Were

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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.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: About Bill Character Every Feet He Height Inch Person Sense Six Strange Wild Word

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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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Topics: Anything Bill Dozen Had Half He Knowledge Least Man Men Personal Times Various Whom Wild

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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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Topics: Actor Baltimore Combination Had Having Indian Largest Organized Road Secured Started Where Which

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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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Topics: Bodies Cut Found Had Indians Literally Men Pieces Place Reaching Surprised Three Us Where Whom

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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.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: Correct Could Customs Etc Faces Giving Government Had Idea Indians Known Life Make Over Pale People Returned Seen States Taking Them Thought United United States Well

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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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Topics: Depict Depicting Effort West

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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.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: Believed Bound Come Confident Could Federal Federal Government Government Knew Last Longer Months Mother She Six Strength Strongly Struggle Sympathies Than Union Utmost War Were

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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.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: Asked Became Creek Death Fast Father Found Friends He His Knew Manner Me Miles Questions Remembered Rode Salt Tragic Twelve Valley Way Well

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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.

~Buffalo Bill

Topics: Apart Average Beginning Built Close Cover Covered Each Exchange Expected Fifteen Forty-Five Good He Horses Hour Intervals Miles Must Ride Rider Route Stations Three Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: February 26th, 1846

Died: January 10th, 1917

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