Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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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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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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