The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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