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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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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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