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.
BUFFALO BILLI could never resist the call of the trail.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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 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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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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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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