Buffalo Bill quotes

Born
February 26, 1846, Le Claire, Iowa Territory, U.S.

Died
January 10, 1917.

Occupation
Soldier, showman.

Buffalo Bill was an American soldier and showman.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
– 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 could never resist the call of the trail.
– Buffalo Bill

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

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
– Buffalo Bill

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

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

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.
– Buffalo Bill

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

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
– Buffalo Bill

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
– Buffalo Bill

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

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

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
– Buffalo Bill

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.
– Buffalo Bill

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

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

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

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.
– Buffalo Bill

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
– Buffalo Bill

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