We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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