We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILLStations 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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