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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 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 restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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