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.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

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.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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.