Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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 first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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