My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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