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

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.

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

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.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

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

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.