Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLThe McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 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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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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