Much of his story was known and it was not diminished in the telling.

He was always at home in the woods.

He had an uncommon sympathy for hunters, borderers, pathfinders and all kinds of wilderness rovers.

He understood them and they instinctively understood him, invariably finding in him a redoubtable champion.

He was also closely in touch with the Indian soul, and his friends used to say laughingly that he had something of the Indian in his own nature.