Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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