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.
BUFFALO BILLWe 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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