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.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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