The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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 has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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