But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLAs a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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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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