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 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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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.
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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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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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