Best Buffalo Bill Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt. — Buffalo Bill

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. — Buffalo Bill

You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the iron dark with the lambs screaming?" "Sometimes." "Do you think if you caught Buffalo Bill yourself and if you made Catherine all right, you could make the lambs stop screaming, do you think they'd be all right too and you wouldn't wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs screaming? Clarice?" "Yes. I don't know. Maybe." "Thank you, Clarice." Dr. Lecter seemed oddly at peace. — Thomas Harris

The people of Cody like you to think that Buffalo Bill was a native son. In fact, I'm awfully proud to tell you, he was an Iowa native, born in the little town of Le Claire in 1846. The people of Cody, in one of the more desperate commercial acts of this century, bought Buffalo Bill's birthplace and re-erected it in their town, but they are lying through their teeth when they hint that he was a local. And the thing is, they have a talented native son of their own. Jackson Pollock, the artist, was born in Cody. But they don't make anything of that because, I suppose, Pollock was a complete wanker when it came to shooting buffalo. — Bill Bryson

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

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter. — Buffalo Bill

Indians were frequently off their reservations. — 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

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

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

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

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. — Buffalo Bill

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

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

Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team. — Marv Levy

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. — 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

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

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. — Buffalo Bill

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. — Buffalo Bill

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

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! — Edgar Bergen

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

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

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. — 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

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. — 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

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

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