After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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