We Were Then In A Dangerous, Helpless

I've Opened The Way For Others To Make Fortunes, But A Fortune For Myself Was Not What I Was After.

Many Heroic Exploits And Chivalrous Adventures Are Related To Me Which Exist Only In The Regions Of Fancy. With Me The World Has Taken Great Liberties, And Yet I Have Been But A Common Man.

In This Situation I Was Constantly Exposed To Danger And Death.

Thus We Behold Kentucky, Lately An Howling Wilderness, The Habitation Of Savages And Wild Beasts, Become A Fruitful Field; This Region, So Favourably Distinguished By Nature, Now Become The Habitation Of Civilization, At A Period Unparalleled In History, In The Midst Of A Raging War, And Under All The Disadvantages Of Emigration To A Country So Remote From The Inhabited Parts Of The Continent.

No, I Never Did Get Lost, But I Was Bewildered For Three Days Once.