General Custer, in his "Life on the Plains," thus speaks of Wild Bill: * * * * * "Among the white scouts were numbered some of the most noted of their class.

The most prominent man among them was 'Wild Bill,' whose highly varied career was made the subject of an illustrated sketch in one of the popular monthly periodicals a few years ago.

'Wild Bill' was a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over.

He was a plains-man in every sense of the word, yet unlike any other of his class.
In person he was about six feet and one inch in height, straight as the straightest of the warriors whose implacable foe he was.

He had broad shoulders, well-formed chest and limbs, and a face strikingly handsome; a sharp, clear blue eye, which stared you straight in the face when in conversation; a finely shaped nose, inclined to be aquiline; a well-turned mouth, with lips only partially concealed by a handsome moustache.