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.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

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.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

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.