I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
BUFFALO BILLHaving 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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