The West, the then unknown and fascinating West, still remained beyond, a land of hope, perhaps a land of refuge.

The men of the lower South, also stirred and unsettled, moved in long columns to the West and Southwest, following the ancient immigration into Texas.

The men of Texas, citizens of a crude empire of unproved resources, likewise cast about them restlessly.

Their cattle must some day find a market.

To the north of them, still unknown and alluring, lay the new upper country known as the West.
In the North the story was the same.