"There is much to interest, much to instruct and amuse, in the times through which I have passed, and I shall endeavor to cull a shrub here and a flower there for the generation that has come upon the stage since I was a boy among the pioneers, who laid, here in the wilds of an almost unbroken wilderness, the foundations of a great and populous State." 

Joseph C. Guild, Judge of the Law Court of Nashville, "Old Times in Tennessee"