CHAPTER III.
THE RENDEZVOUS As to the start of the great wagon train, little time, indeed, remained.
For days, in some instances for weeks, the units of the train had lain here on the border, and the men were growing restless.

Some had come a thousand miles and now were keen to start out for more than two thousand miles additional.

The grass was up.

The men from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas fretted on the leash.
All along the crooked river front, on both sides from Independence to the river landing at Westport, the great spring caravan lay encamped, or housed in town.

Now, on the last days of the rendezvous, a sort of hysteria seized the multitude.