Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 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 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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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 Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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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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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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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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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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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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