Buffalo Bill

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man…

— Buffalo Bill

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never…

— Buffalo Bill

Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he…

— Buffalo Bill

Washington newspaper men know everything.

— Buffalo Bill

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But…

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Buffalo Bill

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in…

— Buffalo Bill

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed…

— Buffalo Bill

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man,…

— Buffalo Bill