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he was quite a remarkable guy.
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He was from Boston, born in New Hampshire,
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grew up in Boston.
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At sixteen he left Boston and went out West, taking a sort
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of circuitous route.
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He went to find his fortune and to find adventure,
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but he also went with a box of paints.
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And he produced these amazing watercolors everywhere he went,
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and he wrote this testimony of his adventures called My Confession.
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It reads like a picaresque.
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It's full of his own heroism, all the senoritas that he romances,
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all the great battles he fights in, but he really