Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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