Buffalo Bill

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

Springfield has always had a place in my heart. ”

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

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”