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.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

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

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

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.