My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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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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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.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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