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.
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 felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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Having 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.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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