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.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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