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.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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 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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