Quotes By Buffalo Bill

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

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

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I could never resist the call of the trail.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Washington newspaper men know everything.

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.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

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