[7] Peel "was the best specimen of 160 pounds, five feet, nine inches, naturally bright, clear headed and helpful always.
Percivel Lowe would go on to say that a "full set of such noncommissioned officers under a good commander would make a troop [ or company] invincible against any reasonable odds.
[8] He traveled to Leavenworth, Kansas; Salt Lake City; Nevada; and eventually to Helena, Montana.
In 1879, he had a faro game at the Sacramento State Fair; Bull was killed in Denver, Colorado, on January 9, 1882, by a fellow gambler Jim Bush.
[18] Mark Twain, in his book Roughing It, refers (perhaps as an inside joke) to Peel as "Farmer Pease".