Buffalo Bill Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Summer, Country, Home

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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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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  Fighting, Numbers, Indian

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

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  Running, Risk, Enemy

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography”

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• My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

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  Iowa, World, February

  "Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography".

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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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  Whiskey, Investment, Liquor

  Henry Inman, Buffalo Bill (1914). “The Great Salt Lake Trail”

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• I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

  Buffalo Bill

  Thinking, My Time

  "The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography".

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

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Broken, Dying

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.148, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Men, Slave, Granted

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

  Buffalo Bill

  Rivers, Safe, Lasts

  Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1994). “The life of Buffalo Bill”

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• General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

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  Character, Students, Custer

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• Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

  Buffalo Bill

  Numbers, Miles, Command

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.273, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

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  Actors, Baltimore, Combination

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

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  Brain, Lightning, Bills

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.128, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Cutting, Men, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.63, U of Nebraska Press

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• Washington newspaper men know everything.

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  Men, Newspapers, Knows

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.364, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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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  Horse, Leader, Shooting

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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  Reservations, Indian

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.365, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Discovery, Giving, Surprise

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.256, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Home, Wife, West

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.363, U of Nebraska Press

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• Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

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  Heart, My Heart

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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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  Men, Personal Knowledge, Half

  Buffalo Bill (1893*). “Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions: Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains”

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

  Buffalo Bill

  Tails, Found, Invited

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• Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

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  Done, Bills, Killing

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.133, U of Nebraska Press

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• If Wild Bill could have made his successful dash into our lines earlier in the day, the attuck would have been made sooner, and greater results might have been expected. The Confederates had suspected him of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him too closely to allow an opportunity to get away from them sooner.

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  Two, Spy, Three

  "Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats".

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• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

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  Boys, Fire, Order

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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