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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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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