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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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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