Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLMajor North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
BUFFALO BILLHaving 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.
BUFFALO BILLStations 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 BILLGeneral Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLDon’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
BUFFALO BILLIndians were frequently off their reservations.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
BUFFALO BILLThe Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILLSome days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLMy restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILLIt 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.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
BUFFALO BILLMy wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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