Already some wagons had broken camp and moved on out into the main traveled road, which lay plain enough on westward, among the groves and glades of the valley of the Kaw.

Each man wanted to be first to Oregon, no man wished to take the dust of his neighbor's wagon.
Wingate brought up all these matters at the train meeting of some three score men which assembled under the trees of his own encampment at eleven of the last morning.

Most of the men he knew.

Banion unobtrusively took a seat well to the rear of those who squatted on their heels or lolled full length on the grass.
After the fashion of the immemorial American town meeting, the beginning of all our government, Wingate called the meeting to order and stated its purposes.

He then set forth his own ideas of the best manner for handling the trail work.
His plan, as he explained, was one long earlier perfected in the convoys of the old Santa Fe Trail.