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

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

I could never resist the call of the trail.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

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

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.

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