--- title: "3 John Bakeless Quotes" description: "John Bakeless has 3 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-john-bakeless-88079.jpg" --- ![Portrait of John Bakeless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-john-bakeless-88079.jpg) # John Bakeless **3** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by John Bakeless > [“Whilst I viewed those mountains, I felt a secret pleasure in finding myself so near the head of the--heretofore conceived--boundless Missouri. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bakeless/whilst-i-viewed-those-mountains-i-felt-a-secret-pleasure-in-finding/) [John Bakeless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bakeless/) [Finding myself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/finding-myself/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/john-bakeless-88079_finding-myself_whilst-i-viewed-those-mountains-i-felt-a_278070.jpg) > [“We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bakeless/we-were-now-about-to-penetrate-a-country-at-least-two-thousand-miles/) [John Bakeless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bakeless/) [Patriotism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patriotism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/john-bakeless-88079_patriotism_we-were-now-about-to-penetrate-a-country_1360893.jpg) > [“I called this island Bad Humored Island, as we were in a bad humor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bakeless/i-called-this-island-bad-humored-island-as-we-were-in-a-bad-humor/) [John Bakeless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bakeless/) [Humor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc0/john-bakeless-88079_humor_i-called-this-island-bad-humored-island_2272321.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bakeless/#itemlist", "name": "John Bakeless Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Whilst I viewed those mountains, I felt a secret pleasure in finding myself so near the head of the--heretofore conceived--boundless Missouri. But when I reflected on the difficulties which this snowy barrier would most probably throw in my way to the Pacific Ocean, and the sufferings and hardships of myself and the party in them, it in some measure counterbalanced the joy I had felt in the first moments in which I gazed on them. But, as I have always held it little short of criminality to anticipate evils, I will allow it to be a good, comfortable road until I am compelled to believe otherwise. 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