Buffalo Bill Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.”

“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.”

“It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.”

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

“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.”