My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILLI had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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 Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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 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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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