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

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

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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.

If Wild Bill could have made his successful dash into our lines earlier in the day, the attuck would have been made sooner, and greater results might have been expected. The Confederates had suspected him of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him too closely to allow an opportunity to get away from them sooner.

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.