Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLYou 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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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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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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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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