The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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 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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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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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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