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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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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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 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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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