61 Quotes by Buffalo Bill

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

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.

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.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

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

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.

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.