![]() Indeed, its character is so clearly and egregiously bad that one might conclude, were the evidence in these later times positive of its possibility, that it was marked for special Providential punishment.” - A letter that appeared in the Washington D.C. It is wild with adventure.” – Henry Starr describing the bandit life in the Old West shortly before he was shot to death in a gunfight in Arkansas. ![]() “Where the Indian killed one buffalo, the hide and tongue hunters killed fifty.” - Chief Red Cloud I only killed one man for snoring.” - John Wesley Hardin. “They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. “Can’t you hurry this up a bit? I hear they eat dinner in Hades at twelve sharp, and I don’t aim to be late.” – Black Jack Ketchum, just before he was hanged at Clayton, New Mexico on April 26, 1901. “He is universally despised by all the officers of his regiment excepting his relatives and one or two sycophants.” – a member of General George Armstrong Custer’s command. Briant, Sutton County, Texas, when he was warned he might be shot. Any coward shooting from night ambush will be too nervous to hit me.” – Elijah S. “You may hear of a killing if everything works right… but it may be some time yet.” - Texas Ranger Ira Aten to Capt. I never liked long-lasting acts.” - Lillie Langtry ![]() “Never run a bluff with a six-gun.” – Bat Masterson “There is no law, no restraint in this seething cauldron of vice and depravity.” – The New York Tribune describing Abilene, Kansas. “A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it the worm will always get out.” - John Dillinger several weeks before he bluffed his way out of the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana. “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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