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 BILLThe 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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