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.
BUFFALO BILLI had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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 brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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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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