General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLOn 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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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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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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But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
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Indians were frequently off their reservations.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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Don’t ever say you are sorry for “being caught in the moment”. Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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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.
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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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