Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLThe Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
More Buffalo Bill Quotes
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people three times the size of a man.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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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.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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