Died Twice and Still Alive
I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. … I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
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Context: The opening lines of Carter's own account of his life.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter I, On the Arizona Hills