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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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Buffalo Bill
Age: 70 †
Born: 1846
Born: February 26
Died: 1917
Died: January 10
Actor
Businessperson
Circus Performer
Frontiersman
Hunter
Military Officer
Showman
Stage Actor
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Scott County
Iowa
William Frederick Cody
Bill Cody
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill Cody
William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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