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.
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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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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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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 wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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