Buffalo Bill Quotes
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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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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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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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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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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.
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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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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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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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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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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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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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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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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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.
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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 found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
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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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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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