Sam Houston was an interesting guy. Ran away from home to live with the Indians. Brothers came to take him home, but he wouldn’t return with them. Preferred Indian company to the tyranny of being ruled by his older brothers. Taught school for a year in a one room school house. Claimed he could teach because he had a degree from “Indian University”. Was self educated in the classics, because his father had a library and he read vociferously.
Ran away from home about age 14. Minor boys were considered an asset in farm life and were more like indentured servants. Indians had a hedonistic life of hunting and living off the land; more self fulfilling.
Douglas MacArthur also grew up hanging out with Indians.