But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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