“Can you believe that sometimes the idea obtrudes…whether it has been well that I have sought civilization with its bothersome concomitants and whether it would not be better even now…to return to the darkness and most sacred wilds of our country and there to vegetate and expire silently, happily and forgotten as do the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.”

Ely S. Parker,

Seneca Chief and Union General