It was entirely free from all bluster or bravado.

He seldom spoke himself unless requested to do so.

His conversation, strange to say, never bordered either on the vulgar or blasphemous.

His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law; and many are the personal quarrels and disturbances which he has checked among his comrades by his simple announcement that 'This has gone far enough,'-- if need be followed by the ominous warning that when persisted in or renewed the quarreler 'must settle it with me.' "Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man; yet no one but him could enumerate the many conflicts in which he had been engaged, and which had almost always resulted in the death of his adversary.

I have a personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed, one of these being at the time a member of my command.