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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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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 wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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