Scalp Dance Quotes

“To beg is the one thing of which an Indian is never ashamed," wrote Captain Charles King. "[T]o hang around camp for an entire day, and when they had coaxed us out of our last plug of tobacco, our only remaining match, and our old clothes, instead of going home satisfied they would”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“The general characteristics of the sexes are in the men a boasting spirit, no moral and little animal courage, consummate indolence ... and intolerable pride, and a fiendish thirst for blood.”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“agreeably disappointed”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“Boy, if you shoot me with dat and I find out, I put you acrost my knee and spank hell outen you!”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“Shakspeare must have had a bad heart and been as devilish mean as a Sioux, to have written such scoundrelism as that."8
When his working days”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“the universal squaw-squat, angular, pig-eyed, ragged, wretched, and insect haunted-with the roses of love, ought to see the woman once, and as a punishment, to be subjected for a session to her indescribable blandishment.`1”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879

“And for those, like Lieutenant James Steele, who harbored romantic notions of sharing breathtaking sunsets with beautiful Indian princesses, their dreams were blasted to shreds.
There is really no more beauty to be found among Indian "maidens" than there is among gorillas . . . .”
― Thomas Goodrich, Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879