As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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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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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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.
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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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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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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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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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