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BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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