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 BILLWe had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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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 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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