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.
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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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 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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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