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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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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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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 a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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