I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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

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.

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.