After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

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.

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.

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

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