The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
BUFFALO BILLWe 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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