Buffalo Bill quotes

Buffalo Bill was an American scout, showman, and entertainer, renowned for his Wild West shows. His performances brought stories of the American frontier to audiences around the world. He became a legendary figure symbolizing the spirit of the Old West. Here are 53 of his quotes:

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

Buffalo Bill

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.

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

Buffalo Bill

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.

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I could never resist the call of the trail.

Buffalo Bill

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

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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.

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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.

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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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