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

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.

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

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.