I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.