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.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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