My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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