“These greenhorns heading across the Rockies know nothing about surviving in the mountains.  It gets awful cold up there, even in summer.  Many a traveler crossing the mountains too late in the year has gotten snowbound and died!”

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“Be warned, stranger.  Don’t dig a water hole!  Drink only river water.  Salty as the Platte River is -- it’s better than the cholera.  We buried my husband last week.  Could use some help with this harness, if you can spare the time.”

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“The Pawnee are the mortal enemies of the Sioux.  I would not hesitate to kill any Pawnee I met.  But I have never killed a white man.  All I ask from the white man is to leave me alone, and to leave my buffalo alone.”

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