Buffalo Bill Quotes

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• I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
• 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.
• I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
• Indians were frequently off their reservations.
• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
• Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
• 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 Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
• The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
• The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
• 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…
• Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
• But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
• Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
• I could never resist the call of the trail.
• 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.

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