Others had been severely wounded, yet he always escaped unhurt.
"On the plains every man openly carries his belt with its invariable appendages, knife and revolver--often two of the latter.

Wild Bill always carried two handsome ivory-handled revolvers of the large size; he was never seen without them....

Yet in all the many affairs of this kind in which Wild Bill has performed a part, and which have come to my knowledge, there was not a single instance in which the verdict of twelve fair-minded men would not have been pronounced in his favor." * * * * * [Illustration: WILD BILL.] Such is the faithful picture of Wild Bill as drawn by General Custer, who was a close observer and student of personal character, and under whom Wild Bill served as a scout.
The circumstances under which I first made his acquaintance and learned to know him well and to appreciate his manly character and kind-heartedness, were these.

One of the teamsters in Lew.

Simpson's train was a surly, overbearing fellow, and took particular delight in bullying and tyrannizing over me, and one day while we were at dinner he asked me to do something for him.