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 BILLDon’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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.
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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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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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