After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
BUFFALO BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
-
-
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
Wild 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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILL -
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
BUFFALO BILL -
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
BUFFALO BILL -
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILL -
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.
BUFFALO BILL -
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILL