My Debut Upon The World's Stage Occurred

The Indians Said The Bones Were Those Of A Race Of People ... Three Times The Size Of A Man.

But The Love Of Adventure Was In Father's Blood.

I Could Never Resist The Call Of The Trail.

Frontiersmen Good And Bad, Gunmen As Well As Inspired Prophets Of The Future, Have Been My Camp Companions. Thus, I Know The Country Of Which I Am About To Write As Few Men Now Living Have Known It.

The Free State Men, Myself Among Them, Took It For Granted That Missouri Was A Slave State.