Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLMy 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.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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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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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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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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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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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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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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