Buffalo Bill

“I could never resist the call of the trail.”

“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.”

“I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.”

“Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”

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

“Indians were frequently off their reservations.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.”

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

“The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.”

“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.”