I Began To Think That

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.

It Was My Effort, In Depicting The West, To Depict It As It Was.

The Free State Men, Myself Among Them, Took It For Granted That Missouri Was A Slave State.

I Had Many Enemies Among The Sioux; I Would Be Running Considerable Risk In Meeting Them.

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 Behind Were Crowded To The Left, So That They Were Soon Going Round And Round.