Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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 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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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