For us who waited on the banks of the Missouri, all this ignorance was matter of indifference.

Our men got their beliefs from no leaders, political or editorial, at home or abroad.

They waited only for the grass to come.
Now at last the grass did begin to grow upon the eastern edge of the great Plains; and so I saw begin that vast and splendid movement across our continent which in comparison dwarfs all the great people movements of the earth.

Xenophon's March of the Ten Thousand pales beside this of ten thousand thousands.

The movements of the Goths and Huns, the Vandals, the Cimri--in a way, they had a like significance with this, but in results those migrations did far less in the history of the world; did less to prove the purpose of the world.
I watched the forming of our caravan, and I saw again that canvas which I have mentioned, that picture of the savages who traveled a thousand years before Christ was born.