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.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting 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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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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