Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.