But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
BUFFALO BILLOn 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.
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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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 was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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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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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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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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