The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. – Buffalo Bill
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. – Buffalo Bill
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. – 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
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
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. – Buffalo Bill
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. – Buffalo Bill
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. – 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
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
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
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. – 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
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
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. – 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
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. – 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
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. – Buffalo Bill
