I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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 cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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We 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.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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