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.
BUFFALO BILLEvery Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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