For it is not Indian policy to risk battle against odds, or where there is danger of great loss and little gain.

To reach water and good hunting-grounds was their first necessity; after that they could consider where next to go.

Sitting Bull was rallying all the tribes for war, and the "White Elk" had promised to join him.
Gloomily the young Texan heard all this talk, and at its close, when a decision had been arrived at, he said: "Here we must part.

I follow the trail of Wild Bill, if I follow it alone.

I had hoped to see him die a slow and cruel death, where I could have heard him plead, and plead in vain for mercy.