Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
BUFFALO BILLMy wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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