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.
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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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