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Buffalo Bill Cody Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“You say your health is bad. if I had you to fork some of my pitching horses [3] and go it on corn bread straight in this great and glourious [sic] climate for a few months I would fix you.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Health, Cornbread, Climate
“I wonder What Kind of an—ungrateful rooster you take me for.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Ingratitude, rooster, Ungrateful Rooster
“That is I never say that I kill an Indian without I get his scalp. I sent two scalps east to the Sentennial [sic] and have one on the boat with me that I killed one week ago yestarday [sic]. But it came near being my last. for the indians [sic] had the first shot and tore a small piece out of my side. but it was his last shot. I am now carrying his scalp home.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Scalping, Native Americans, Indians, Centennial
“We have had a fight I killed Yellow Hand A Cheyenne Chief. in a single handed fight You will no doupt [sic] hear of it through the papers…I fought single-handed in sight of our command and the cheers that went up when he fell was deafening.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Fight, Hand to Hand Combat, Murder, Cheyenne
“God has taken from us our only little Boy. He was to good for this world. We loved him to dearly he could not stay. God wanted him where he could live in a better world. So he sent the angel of death. to take whe [sic] the treasure that he had given us five years and five months ago. and how dear he had grown to us in that time. And when we seen that there was dainger [sic] of him leaving us how we all clung to him. And prayed God not to take from us our little boy. But when he sent that hasty cruel messenger the Scarlet fever. there was no hope from the start. death claimed him as their own at once. and only gave us two short days. to say farewell and bid him good bye. Then he was gone. And now his place is vacant and can never never be filled. for he has gone to be a beautiful angel in that better world. where he will wait for us. every one will know him there.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Loss, Child's Death, God, Angel of Death
“I have just returned from a big hunt. The Indians in this country are on the war path.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Hunting, Indians, Native Americans, Warpath
“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have come to share with him the great land that was his heritage should do their share toward seeing that he is dealt with justly and fairly, and that his rights and liberties are never infringed by the scheming politician or the short-sighted administration of law.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody: An Autobiography
Tagged: Indian, citizen, Soldier, Land, Law, Poltician
“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game that was our meat. In 1868 he arranged to build through the Indians' land a road on which ran iron horses that ate wood and breathed fire and smoke. We agreed. This road was only as wide as a man could stretch his arms. But the White Man had taken from the Indians the land for twenty miles on both sides of it. This land he had sold for money to people in the East. It was taken from the Indians. But the Indians got nothing for it.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody: An Autobiography
Tagged: White Man, Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, Indians, Native Americans
“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in roving tribes, making no real use of the resources of the country, would be compelled to give way before the men who tilled the soil and used the lands as the Creator intended they should be used.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody: An Autobiography
Tagged: Indians, Native Americans, creator, Manifest Destiny
“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the White Man came, and the White Man took it away from them. It was natural that they should resist. It was natural that they employed the only means of warfare known to them against those whom they regarded as usurpers. It was our business, as scouts, to be continually on the warpath against them when they committed depredations. But no scout ever hated the Indians in general.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody: An Autobiography
Tagged: Government, Indians, Native Americans, Warfare, White Man, Warpath, Hate
“I was liable at any moment to run into a party of his young men who might be out hunting, and as I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats
Tagged: Sioux, Trail of Tears, Hunting
“If a woman can do the same work that a man can do and do it just as well, she should have the same pay.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Gender Equity, Wage Gap
“All my interests are still with the West—the modern West.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: interests, West, Modern West
“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody
Tagged: Indian, native american, Broken Treaties, Trail of Tears
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