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Updated: May 11, 2025

Then Shorty saw the belligerent attitude and yelled: "Come, Si. Don't fight there. That's no place. If you're goin' to fight, come up on level ground, where it kin be fair and square. Come up here, or we'll go over there." "O, come off," shouted the rebel on the other side. "Don't be a fool, Bill. Fist-foutin' don't settle nothin'. Come back here and git your gun if ye want to fout.

John McElroy - Si Klegg, Book 3 : Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures

So they jist lit upon these Friendlies, and massacreed 'em yes, sir, literally massacreed 'em in cold blood, in spite of our flag thar yes, women and little children, even! "'I tell you what, friends; I don't like a hostile Red Skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fit 'em fout 'em and expect to fight 'em hard as any man. That's my business.

Edward Sylvester Ellis - The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A.