Wealth & Money Quote by Buffalo Bill

That line is frontier capitalism with a wink: whiskey isn`t a vice here, it`s a financial instrument. Buffalo Bill frames liquor as an "investment" that yields "provisions", flipping the moral script that would usually condemn drinking into a tidy ledger entry. The slyness is doing real work. He`s not confessing; he`s justifying. Better yet, he`s bragging about outsmarting a system where cash is scarce, barter is king, and survival depends on converting whatever you have into whatever you need.

The context matters because Cody isn`t just a guy on the trail; he`s a celebrity-in-the-making, someone who understood that American audiences loved frontier stories that made rough behavior sound pragmatic, even virtuous. By stressing that the same money couldn`t have bought as much food outright, he positions whiskey as a kind of portable leverage: high demand, easy to trade, socially lubricating. The frontier, in this telling, isn`t a place for temperance lectures. It`s a place where value is fluid and morality is negotiable.

The subtext is also about myth management. "Profitable investment" borrows the language of respectable commerce, laundering a potentially disreputable act through the vocabulary of enterprise. It`s a neat preview of the Buffalo Bill brand: convert chaos into a story of ingenuity, convert necessity into savvy, convert a questionable transaction into proof that the frontier rewards the clever.