“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!”
1
“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.”
4
“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.”
