The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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