I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
BUFFALO BILLFrontiersmen 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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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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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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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 Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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