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.
BUFFALO BILLAfter crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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 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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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