Ben Arnold > Quotes

“Each wagon had its crew of men to do the loading, and each man in the crew was assigned certain work; thus the loading was done quickly and without confusion.”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold

“enemy—the whites. The Indian, however, was more bitter towards his hereditary red enemy than he was against his white enemy, and Sitting Bull’s efforts to form a federated alliance among”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold

“I counted the elk as we catch-count cattle, by tens, and the total number arrived at by this method was 1,700 head. To my readers this will seem a fairy story, yet it is true. Elk, like some other animals, gather in great herds in the fall.”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold

“On one large cake of ice stood four buffaloes; I suppose they had been trying to cross the river when caught by the torrent.”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold

“A large gray wolf skin, or buffalo wolf as it was often called, was worth about two dollars, and a coyote’s skin was worth from a dollar to a dollar and a half.”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold

“The graves—some unmarked and revealed only by a ridge of clay or a sunken place in the sod, others with crude inscriptions cut with a pocket knife or painted with axel grease on a barrel stave or a board from a packing box—told a simple story, touching even to the most hardened.”
― Ben Arnold, The True Exploits of Ben Arnold