Indians were frequently off their reservations.

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

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.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

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

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.