I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

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.

Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking.

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