My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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