I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
BUFFALO BILLStations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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