Buffalo Bill Quotes

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Buffalo Bill

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : February 26, 1846

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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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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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

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I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

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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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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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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

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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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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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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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I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

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Washington newspaper men know everything.

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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

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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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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

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