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.
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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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