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.
BUFFALO BILLQuick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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