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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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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 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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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