Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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 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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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