Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without me...
On his thirty-first birthday, Lewis wrote, in a famous passage, This day I completed my thirty first year. . . . I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the hapin...
Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet ste...
No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command,...
Like so many of his fellow Americans, Cooper was drawn to the ideas of a primitive, free access to the bounty of nature, the rough equality of all men in a society, and of a natural, intuitive theolog...
In October 1805, Stoddard’s tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson gave them the standard Great Father talk: We are...
All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse’s religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.
Buckshot;
Winters, Matheson, Nixon, and the others existed, Private Rader remembered. These were first-class people, and to think these men would care and share their time and efforts with us seemed a miracle....
Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected
It is perhaps the consummate irony, Arthur Moore writes, that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reaso...
Crazy Horse called to his men, Ho-ka hey! It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts, brave hearts, to the front! Weak hearts and cowards to the rear.
By the beginning of March, K Company, 333rd Regiment, had reached the Rhine. The men settled down in the village of Krefeld to await Montgomery’s Operation Plunder, the crossing of the river; Monty wa...
Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Cor...
The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.
You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.
Vice-President Aaron Burr was full of plots and schemes and conspiracies to break the west loose from the United States and form a new nation. Jefferson
One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes...
Like Crazy Horse, Custer lived his life to the full; again like Crazy Horse, he was so involved with living that he did not have time to fear death.
Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey, who was present at the meeting and who later became the authority on the battle of the Little Bighorn, recorded the aftermath. This ‘talk’ of his [Custer’s] was considere...