Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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