I don’t think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.

I wonder if the country will ever heal from the war?”... “It won’t be anytime soon. Maybe not even in our lifetimes.

Someone has to champion us if the government won’t. During the Draft Riots back home, mobs attacked members of the race all over the city. They even burned down a Colored orphanage. Those who hate us have no shame, and if dragging them from their houses teaches them a lesson, I’m all for dragging them out every night until they learn.

Never mind then. Do what’s best for her. Not you. But if you need me to ride north, let me know.

The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire.

Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn’t be wherever he was taken.

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?

Pirate thoughts.

So, having been dismissed by his mistress while pining for a woman who belonged to another, he rode out of the city to the abandoned plantation his good friend Hugh had purchased, and hoped he had some cognac on hand.