Joel Grey: Nate Salisbury
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Nate Salisbury : I'm the only partner Bill Cody ever had who tells him the truth. And in the end, we always agree.
Ned Buntline : I was taught that when two partners always agree, one of them ain't necessary.
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William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Where were ya?
William Halsey : It's the first of the moon.
Nate Salisbury : That's not what Buffalo Bill asked ya! Now where in the hell have you been?
William Halsey : During the first day of the first moon, Sitting Bull visits the sun in the mountains while his squaws move the teepees to the moon path.
Nate Salisbury : Damn it, Halsey! Stop sunning and mooning us! Now where the hell have you been?
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Nate Salisbury : Here's the man you've all been waiting for, the man whose place in history, and solid character, has made him popular throughout the continent! Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, America's national entertainer. Let's put one all together now for William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill!
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Nate Salisbury : Did Burke promise you that?
William Halsey : Sitting Bull no longer accepts promises from white men. His dreams told him that this is the place he would meet the Great Father.
Nate Salisbury : Sitting Bull is here because he dreamed he'd meet President Cleveland?
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Nate Salisbury : You know, when I was traveling with the troubadours, there were times when I was asked to be a colored. Now, do I look like a colored?
Whip & Fast Draw Act : Oh, no, no, sir.
Nate Salisbury : But when I had to play a colored, I was a colored. I thought a colored, I drank a colored, I walked a colored. I was a colored.
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Nate Salisbury : History, real history, is hard come. And the man I'm about to celebrate is not a mere personation of a patriot, but the true monarch of genuity. Scout, showman, family person, valued partner, America's national entertainer.
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Ned Buntline : What a fine citizen you're makin' out of Bill. Why, it don't even seem like the same man anymore. Never gets into trouble. Never looks bad in public.
Nate Salisbury : All I care about is the Wild West. I'm going to Codyfy the world.
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Nate Salisbury : That's my star.
Maj. John M. Burke : He belongs to all of us, Nate.
Nate Salisbury : Our star.
Maj. John M. Burke : America's.
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Ned Buntline : Well, I'll be Goddamned if it ain't Nervous Nate.
Nate Salisbury : Buntline, you're not doing anybody a favor by being here.
Ned Buntline : I ain't in the favor business, Nate.
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Ed Goodman : Shall we holler for help?
Nate Salisbury : We are the help.
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Nate Salisbury : And now, to open our show in the big way, Buffalo Bill and Nate Salsbury present a feature attraction unique and unparalleled. The foremost woman marksman in the world, the little girl of the Western plains, the peerless Lady Wing-Shot, Annie Oakley! Annie Oakley! Fairest flower of the West!
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Nate Salisbury : Pursuing the brave, invulnerable buffs is our star, America's national hero, Bill Cody: Buffalo Bill! Let's hear it for Buffalo Bill!
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Nate Salisbury : The most feared, the most murderous, the most colorful redskin alive. Here he comes, the battling Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux, Sitting Bull!
