I agree with you, Wingate.

This river's been forded by the trains for years, and I don't see as we need be any more chicken-hearted than those others that went through last year and earlier.

This is the old fur-trader crossing, the Mormons crossed here, and so can we." Silence met his words.

The older men looked at the swollen stream, turned to the horseman who had proved it.
"What does Major Banion say ?" spoke up a voice.
"Nothing!" was Banion's reply.

"I'm not in your council, am I ?" "You are, as much as any man here," spoke up Caleb Price, and Hall and Kelsey added yea to that.