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.
Where did all these damn Indians come from?
The Seventh can handle anything it meets.
I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.
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.