The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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 began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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 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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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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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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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