Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

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.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

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

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.

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.