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Buffalo Bill quotes

American Celebrity February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917

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Buffalo Bill quote: "But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
But the love of adventure was in father's blood. Buffalo Bill
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. Buffalo Bill
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. Buffalo Bill
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. Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill quote: "I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the..."
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. Buffalo Bill
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
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. Buffalo Bill
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. 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 the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill quote: "My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death..."
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. Buffalo Bill
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. Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill quote: "I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track."
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. Buffalo Bill
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. 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, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill quote: "As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left..."
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. Buffalo Bill

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