...to trap," he commented. "Aw," said Bill, "you all know I have no glory except in the woods, and my ambition is to kill more deer and catch more beaver than any other man. But these here I'm giving to this here Fontaine so's he can give his papoose some book learnin'. I...

...height, gaunt, red-headed, with a hard, weather-beaten face, marked deeply with the small pox." He was "all muscle and sinew, and the most indefatigable hunter and trapper in the world," who had "no glory except in the woods," and "a shrewd, cute, original man, and far from illiterate."2...

...six-foot-one, "gaunt, and redheaded, with a hard, weather-beaten face, marked deeply with the small pox. He is all muscle and sinew, and the most indefatigable hunter and trapper in the world."13 Soon after Williams started down the R1o Grande in the fall of 1825, another of Sibley 's...