After buffalo once, he come pretty near to savin' my life.
We got to be thick as brothers, an' he was the only man I ever seen who I thought was good enough for Milly.

An' the day they were married I got drunk for the only time in my life.
"Soon after that I left home--it seems Milly was the only one who could keep me home--an' I went to the bad, as to prosperin' I saw some pretty hard life in the Pan Handle, an' then I went North.

In them days Kansas an' Nebraska was as bad, come to think of it, as these days right here on the border of Utah.

I got to be pretty handy with guns.

An' there wasn't many riders as could beat me ridin'.