Occupation: Hunter Birth: February 26, 1846 Death: January 10, 1917
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is..
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers..
But the love of adventure was in father's blood..
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character..
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government..
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain..
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west..
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….
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water..
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter..
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt..
Washington newspaper men know everything..
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another..
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..
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, vis….
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….
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But ….
Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight eithe….
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider..
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 ab….
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood..