Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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