Buffalo Bill Quotes

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Buffalo Bill

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : February 26, 1846

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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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

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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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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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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

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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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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

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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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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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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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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

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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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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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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

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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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