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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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Buffalo Bill
Age: 70 †
Born: 1846
Born: February 26
Died: 1917
Died: January 10
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