50+ Buffalo Bill Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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Body Death Kill Literature Pieces Place Surprise
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Death Fell Quick Stranger Weapon
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Enemy Fire Moments Order Shoot War Weapon
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Animal Command Death Kill Myself
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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Bone Man People Race Time
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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Destiny Life Myself Path
I could never resist the call of the trail.
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Call Myself Resistance
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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Fire Friendship Live Opportunity Peace Way Yourself
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
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
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Animal Command Death Kill Myself
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
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
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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Greatness Himself History Myself Time Wonderful Writing
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Character Personal Student
Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Excitement Myself Service
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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Actor Combination Myself Organization Road Security
My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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Appearance Myself Time World
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.
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Goodness Guide Himself Myself
I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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Food Invitation Myself
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Bad Future Goodness Live Man Myself Weapon
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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Complete Live Man Power
But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Adventure Blood Father Love
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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Moments Sorry Yourself
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Home Myself Spirit
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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Battle Character Lonely Mindset Myself Old Strong Time
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave

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