On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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