Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
BUFFALO BILLThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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 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.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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