50+ Buffalo Bill Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

My 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.
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Animal Greatness Kill Myself Ride Shoot
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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Choice Country Home Important Myself Practice Presentation Summer
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Avoid Confidence Discover Surprise
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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Fight Kill Knowledge Man Myself Personal Time
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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Eat Fire Myself Water
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Action Freedom Kill
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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Feeling Fight Proud War
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Appearance Effort Myself
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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Better Day Expression Ourselves Time
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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Alcohol Investment Money Profit
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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Body Father Friendship Help Himself Home Mortal Myself Ride Wound
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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Feeling Man Myself Travel
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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Break Death Man Sick
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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Beginning Myself Thinking Time
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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Belief Development Greatness Myself Wake Up
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Heart Myself Place
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Animal Best Myself Race
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Determination Escape Failure Myself Planning
Washington newspaper men know everything.
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Information Man Media
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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Correct Face Government Ideas Life Myself People Return See Thinking
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Feeling Nation Patriot Proud Respect
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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Character Himself Man Strange Word
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Frequent Reservation
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Enemy Myself Risk Run
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Brother Death Favorite Himself
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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Break Government Myself Promise Result
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Happiness Home Myself Wife

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