There were 20 million buffalo, each worth at least $3 – $60 million. At the very outside, cartridges cost 25 cents each, so every time I fired one I got my investment back twelve times over. I could kill a hundred a day.... That would be $6,000 a month – or three times what was paid, it seems to me, the President of the United States. Was I not lucky that I discovered this quick and easy way to fortune?
