Buffalo Bill Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

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.

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If Wild Bill could have made his successful dash into our lines earlier in the day, the attuck would have been made sooner, and greater results might have been expected. The Confederates had suspected him of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him too closely to allow an opportunity to get away from them sooner.

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