The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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 found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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