“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
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Category: future
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“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”
— Buffalo Bill
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“My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.”
— Buffalo Bill
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Category: home
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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.”
— Buffalo Bill
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Category: death
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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.”
— Buffalo Bill
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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.”
— Buffalo Bill
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Category: knowledge
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“My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.”
— Buffalo Bill
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“The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.”
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“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”
— Buffalo Bill
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“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
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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.”
— Buffalo Bill
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Category: home
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