I could never resist the call of the trail.
BUFFALO BILLAs a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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