“Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.” – General George Custer, writing about Wild Bill Hickok. “The adulation’s heaped on him by a grateful nation for his supposed genius turned his head, which, added to his natural disposition, caused him to bloat his little carcass with debauchery and dissipation which carried him off prematurely.” - General George Crook delivered this unusual obituary in memory of General Philip Sheridan, who many Army officers of the West disliked “ Cimarron is in the hands of a mob.” - The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper commenting on Cimarron, New Mexico, during the Colfax County War.
“We are rough men and used to rough ways.” – Bob Younger to a newspaper reporter following the 1876 Northfield, Minnesota raid.
Were it to be done again I would do it exactly as I did it at the time.” - Wyatt Earp, lawman “For my handling of the situation at Tombstone, I have no regrets.
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