My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
BUFFALO BILLI had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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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