Buffalo Bill Quotes

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Buffalo Bill

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : February 26, 1846

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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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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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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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

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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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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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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

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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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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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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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