Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Codywas an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory, but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before the family again moved to the Kansas Territory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth26 February 1846
CountryUnited States of America
brother neighborhood casts
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
opportunity cities fire
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.
cutting men pieces
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.
brain bills lightning
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
whiskey investment liquor
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.
horse leader riding
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.
tails found lodges
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
fighting men giving
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.
running risk enemy
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
two spy bills
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
effort west
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
soldier united-states proud
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
fighting numbers indian
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
east development west
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.