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.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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 brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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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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