I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
BUFFALO BILLI found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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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.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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