My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long..

Indians were frequently off their reservations..

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word..

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut in….

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

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the cu….

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….

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

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was morta….

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….

Springfield has always had a place in my heart..