“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.”

“It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other’s throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.”

“Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.”

“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.”

“What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.”

“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”