General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
BUFFALO BILLThe 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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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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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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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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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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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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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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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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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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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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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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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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