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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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