With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
BUFFALO BILLThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
-
-
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
BUFFALO BILL -
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
BUFFALO BILL -
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILL -
Washington newspaper men know everything.
BUFFALO BILL -
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILL -
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
BUFFALO BILL -
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 BILL -
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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 BILL -
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
BUFFALO BILL