Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife – Agnes – and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
I have quit chewing tobacco and don’t touch any lager beer, and I don’t speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
If I’ve got any authority in Hays, Mrs. Lake isn’t going to pay this town a cent of license for showing, and if any man attempts to stop this show, then just put it down that he’s got me to fight. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won’t fight now unless I’m put upon. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven’t seen her this many a year and haven’t been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
This circus that’s advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don’t know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here… if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble. Wild Bill Hickok Read Quote
