It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILLWild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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 McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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 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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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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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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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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