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.
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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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