If I’ve got any authority in Hays, Mrs. Lake isn’t going to pay this town a cent of license for showing, and if any man attempts to stop this show, then just put it down that he’s got me to fight. – Wild Bill Hickok
How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest. – Wild Bill Hickok
This circus that’s advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time. – Wild Bill Hickok
I have quit chewing tobacco and don’t touch any lager beer, and I don’t speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship. – Wild Bill Hickok
I don’t like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of it, and sometimes I dream about it and wake up in a cold sweat. – Wild Bill Hickok
I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven’t seen her this many a year and haven’t been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life. – Wild Bill Hickok
Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife – Agnes – and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. – Wild Bill Hickok
When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won’t fight now unless I’m put upon. – Wild Bill Hickok
I have never insulted man or woman in my life, but if you knew what a wholesome regard I have for damn liars and rascals, they would be liable to keep out of my way. – Wild Bill Hickok
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. – Wild Bill Hickok
There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don’t know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here… if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble. – Wild Bill Hickok
