As some of you know, I was out that way, up the Arkansas, with Doniphan, for the Stars and Stripes.

Talk about wagon travel--you got to have a regular system or you have everything in a mess.

This here, now, is a lot like so many volunteers enlisting for war.

There's always a sort of preliminary election of officers; sort of shaking down and shaping up.
I wasn't here when Cap'n Wingate was elected--our wagons were some late--but speaking for our men, I'd move to ratify his choosing, and that means to ratify his regulations.

I'm wondering if I don't get a second for that ?" Some of the bewhiskered men who sat about him stirred, but cast their eyes toward their own captain, young Banion, whose function as their spokesman had thus been usurped by his defeated rival, Woodhull.