Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.