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.
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
-
-
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILL -
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
BUFFALO BILL -
I could never resist the call of the trail.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILL -
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 BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILL -
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
BUFFALO BILL -
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 BILL -
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILL -
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
BUFFALO BILL