"I am a fighter from Bitter Creek; I'm a wolf, and this is my night to howl. I've three rows of front teeth, and nary tooth alike. The folks on Bitter Creek are bad; the higher up you go, the wuss they are; and I'm from the head-waters."
—from The Century: A Popular Quarterly, 1882, page 885.

"I'm a wolf, and it's my night to howl! I'm a bucking cayuse from Bitter Creek, wild and woolly and hard to curry! Whoop-pee! Everyone take a drink!"
—from Ballou's Monthly Magazine, 1888, page 405.

"Yip eech! I'm a mule an' my brother's a horse! Yow! I'm Rorin' Red Rube, the Renegade o' the Rockies! I'm put together with brass rivets an' my tail goes on with a screw! Keep yip! I'm on it bigger'n an Injun, an' it's my night to howl! Yow! Wow! Kee yow!"
—from Book notes: a monthly literary magazine and review of new books, 1899, page 186.