I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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 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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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