But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLBut 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Stations 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.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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.
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