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.
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.