After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
BUFFALO BILLMy wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 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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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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