sentences:  At age eight, he shot and killed a cow that had rampaged through the family home, earning him the nickname Squire.At age thirteen Ebbert became an apprentice machinist, but left with only three months to go of the seven-year apprenticeship to elope to St. Louis, Missouri with a woman against his mother's wishes.Ebbert's mother refused to attend their wedding, so he abandoned the plans and joined Milton Sublette as a fur trapper with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.