Buffalo Bill Quotes

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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

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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 investment.

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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, visiting practically every important city in the country.

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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

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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 were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

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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 on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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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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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

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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 about to write as few men now living have known it.

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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

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