Buffalo Frederick Bill quotes Born: 02/26/1846 Died: 01/10/1917 Country: usa

• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. (Buffalo Bill)
• 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) [horse]
• General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. (Buffalo Bill) [student/character]
• 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. (Buffalo Bill) [actors/combination]
• I began to think my time had come, as the saying is. (Buffalo Bill) [think/time]
• 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. (Buffalo Bill)
• I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter. (Buffalo Bill)
• I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. (Buffalo Bill) [enemies/meeting]
• I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. (Buffalo Bill) [horse]
• 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) [government/customs/life/people]
• Indians were frequently off their reservations. (Buffalo Bill)
• Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. (Buffalo Bill)
• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. (Buffalo Bill) [power/more]
• My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. (Buffalo Bill) [death]
• My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa. (Buffalo Bill) [stage/state]
• My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. (Buffalo Bill)
• My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. (Buffalo Bill) [spirit/housing]
• My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. (Buffalo Bill) [wife/housing]
• Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt. (Buffalo Bill)
• 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. (Buffalo Bill) [men]
• Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. (Buffalo Bill) [wild/stranger/brain]
• But the love of adventure was in father's blood. (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)
• Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. (Buffalo Bill)
• Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. (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)
• I could never resist the call of the trail. (Buffalo Bill)
• I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. (Buffalo Bill)
• 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. (Buffalo Bill)
• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was. (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. (Buffalo Bill)

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