I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

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

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

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.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

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 customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.