We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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 said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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