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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.
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Buffalo Bill
Age: 70 †
Born: 1846
Born: February 26
Died: 1917
Died: January 10
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Scott County
Iowa
William Frederick Cody
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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.
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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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