I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.