Camps like Forty Mile and Circle City were to him metropolises.

And not alone had he grown up with the land, for, raw as it was, he had helped to make it.

He had made history and geography, and those that followed wrote of his traverses and charted the trails his feet had broken.
Heroes are seldom given to hero-worship, but among those of that young land, young as he was, he was accounted an elder hero.

In point of time he was before them.

In point of deed he was beyond them.