But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
BUFFALO BILLIt was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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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 many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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