In the preceding chapters I have sketched briefly some of the most interesting of my adventures on the Plains.

It has been necessary to omit much that I would like to have told.

For twenty years my life was one of almost continuous excitement, and to tell the whole story would require many volumes.
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.

How greatly I was to succeed in this venture I had no idea when it first occurred to me.

As I have told you, I had already appeared in a small Western show, and was the first man to bring Indians to the East and exhibit them.