But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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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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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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