Buffalo Bill Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”
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“I could never resist the call of the trail.”
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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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“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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“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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“Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.”
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“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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“The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.”
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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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“The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.”
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“The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.”
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“The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”
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“Springfield has always had a place in my heart.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.”
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“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”
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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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“But the love of adventure was in father's blood.”
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“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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“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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