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Motivational Buffalo Bill Quotes And Sayings

Buffalo Bill Quotes:- Buffalo Bill (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father’s hometown in Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory.

Inspirational Buffalo Bill Quotes

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.
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Inspirational Buffalo Bill Quotes

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.
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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.
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I found Spotted Tail’s lodge. He invited me to enter.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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Major North and I went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Famous Buffalo Bill Quotes

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Nothing, of course, was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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Cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days and had watched him closely.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Washington newspapermen know everything.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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Powerful Quotes by 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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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.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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The excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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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.
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I could never resist the call of the trail.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Best Buffalo Bill Quotes And Sayings

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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My mother’s sympathies were strong 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You who live your lives in cities or in 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.
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