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.
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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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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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 Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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