Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
The Seventh can handle anything it meets.
Where did all these damn Indians come from?
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.