It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILLI was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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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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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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You 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.
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