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.
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More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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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.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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 brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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