"I knew then I had found the place I had always wanted to be."
Chap. 1, p. 12

"Men were not meant to live alone."
Chap. 1, p. 27

"I guess maybe you will think the three of us are queer, but not long ago we went on a midwinter picnic."
Chap. 2, p. 33

"When you get down to hardpan, the whole business of living in the wilderness, finding your way about, and avoiding the dangers, is much a matter of common sense and getting the habit of observing everything closely."
Chap. 2, p. 47

"I wish you could step out with me and look at the sky one of these February nights."
Chap. 3, p. 61

"Whenever men boil water the song of the kettle is a song of peace and contentment and home."
Chap. 3, p. 66

"No man taught me. It is the way my people made their drums talk many, many years before I was...