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.
BUFFALO BILLI had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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