We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
-
-
Washington newspaper men know everything.
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 -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
BUFFALO BILL -
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
BUFFALO BILL -
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
BUFFALO BILL -
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILL -
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILL -
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 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 -
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.
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 brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
BUFFALO BILL -
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
BUFFALO BILL