My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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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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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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