We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise..

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

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross..

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….

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

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes b….

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was..

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that h….

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 could never resist the call of the trail..

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be..

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way..

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my….

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state..

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter..

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 eithe….

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 ….

But the love of adventure was in father's blood..

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am ab….

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers..

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west..