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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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.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill Indians were frequently off their reservations.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill 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.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill I could never resist the call of the trail.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill 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.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill 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.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill 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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