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 BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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.
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