Buffalo Bill Quotes

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

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

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

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

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 felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

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

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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.

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

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

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

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

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.

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

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

Washington newspaper men know everything.

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

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

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