Buffalo Bill

Celebrity

1846-02-26 – 1917-01-10

Quotes by Buffalo Bill

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

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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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• The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

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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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• 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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• I could never resist the call of the trail.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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