We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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