The cowboys were in need of chaps, and with an admirable mixture of adventurousness, frugality, and ready adaptability to circumstances, had made substitutes therefore in the shape of canvas overalls, cut from the roof and walls of the shaky temple of justice.
One of my valued friends in the mountains, and one of the best hunters with whom I ever travelled, was a man who had a peculiarly light-hearted way of looking at conventional social obligations.

Though in some ways a true backwoods Donatello, he was a man of much shrewdness and of great courage and resolution.

Moreover, he possessed what only a few men do possess, the capacity to tell the truth.

He saw facts as they were, and could tell them as they were, and he never told an untruth unless for very weighty reasons.

He was pre-eminently a philosopher, of a happy, sceptical turn of mind.