"He come into Kaintuckee alone in '52, and that was two years before Finley.

He was on the Ewslip all the winter of '58.

He was allus springing out of a bush when ye didn't expect him.

When we was fighting the Cherokees with Montgomery in '61 he turned up as guide to the Scotsmen, and I reckon if they'd attended to him there'ud be more of them alive this day.

He was like a lone wolf, old Jim, and preferred to hunt by hisself, but you never knowed that he wouldn't come walking in and say 'Howdy' while you was reckoning you was the fust white man to make that trace.