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 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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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