Daily Inspiration Quote by Buffalo Bill

It lands like a shrug with blood on its sleeves: “Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.” The “of course” is the tell. It’s not just reporting impunity; it’s normalizing it, turning a homicide into a foregone conclusion, as if the real oddity would be consequences. That single phrase does the cultural heavy lifting, revealing a world where justice isn’t blind so much as selectively nearsighted.

In Buffalo Bill’s orbit - where biography, dime-novel myth, and self-curated legend blur - the line reads like a backstage aside about how the frontier actually worked. “Bill” in the third person matters, too. It’s distancing and branding at once: he’s both the man and the character, already halfway to becoming an American product. The name becomes a title that can absorb guilt without staining the brand.

The Tutt reference points to the famous Wild Bill Hickok-Dave Tutt killing, a public showdown later validated by a court in a way that effectively codified “fair fight” violence as excusable. If Buffalo Bill is invoking that story, he’s invoking a legal culture that treated reputation and spectacle as mitigating factors. The subtext is transactional: if the killing fits the script - public, reciprocal, legible as “honor” - the system will look away.

That’s the quote’s quiet indictment and its sleight of hand. It sells the West as inevitable, with violence as an administrative detail, while implying that the people who got “nothing done” to them were the ones already being positioned as legends.