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Buffalo Bill

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


— Buffalo Bill


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


— Buffalo Bill


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


— Buffalo Bill


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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


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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.


— Buffalo Bill


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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.


— Buffalo Bill


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


— Buffalo Bill


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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.


— Buffalo Bill


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Washington newspaper men know everything.


— Buffalo Bill


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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


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About Buffalo Bill

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Did you know about Buffalo Bill?

He claimed to have had many jobs including as a trapper bullwhacker "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado a Pony Express rider in 1860 wagonmaster stagecoach driver and a hotel manager but historians have had difficulty documenting them and he may have fabricated some for publicity. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was enormously successful in Europe making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity and an American icon. A 1976 feature film Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson by Robert Altman gives deeply critical depiction of Cody and his Wild West show with Cody portrayed as a lying buffoon who cannot separate fiction from reality.

One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U. state of Iowa) in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory.

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