Quotes By Buffalo Bill

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

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

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

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

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.

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

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

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.

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.

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.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

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.