 You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. |
| 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. |
| Indians were frequently off their reservations. |
| Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. |
| The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. |
| We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. |
| The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. |
| My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. |
| I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed. |
| I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. |
| General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. |
| I began to think my time had come, as the saying is. |
| Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. Topics: Government |
