Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Buffalo Bill
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
Buffalo Bill

I could never resist the call of the trail.

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
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
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

Buffalo Bill
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
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
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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.

Buffalo Bill
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
Buffalo Bill

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

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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
Buffalo Bill

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

Buffalo Bill
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
Buffalo Bill

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

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