I enjoyed the life to the full.

After the first year I built on the Elkhorn ranch a long, low ranch house of hewn logs, with a veranda, and with, in addition to the other rooms, a bedroom for myself, and a sitting-room with a big fire-place.

I got out a rocking-chair--I am very fond of rocking-chairs--and enough books to fill two or three shelves, and a rubber bathtub so that I could get a bath.

And then I do not see how any one could have lived more comfortably.

We had buffalo robes and bearskins of our own killing.