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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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