The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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