Buffalo Bill Quotes

"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."

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

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

"Indians were frequently off their reservations."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The Indians had now become so bad and had stolen so much stock that it was decided to stop the pony express for at least six weeks."

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

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

"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."

"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."

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

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

"My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long."

"Springfield has always had a place in my heart."

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

"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."