Buffalo Bill Quotes
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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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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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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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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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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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 could never resist the call of the trail.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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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 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 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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Washington newspaper men know everything.
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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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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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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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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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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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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.