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

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.
Buffalo Bill

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
Buffalo Bill

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.
Buffalo Bill

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

Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
Buffalo Bill

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.
Buffalo Bill

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

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.
Buffalo Bill

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.
Buffalo Bill


I could never resist the call of the trail.
Buffalo Bill

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.
Buffalo Bill

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

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

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
Buffalo Bill

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.
Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
Buffalo Bill

Indians were frequently off their reservations.
Buffalo Bill

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.
Buffalo Bill

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