The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.