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.
BUFFALO BILLDon’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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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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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 felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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