The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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 greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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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 Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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