The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
BUFFALO BILLSpringfield has always had a place in my heart.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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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 had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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 debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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