The earth is trampled over their bold hearts, and they have gone back into the earth, the air, the sky, and the wild flowers.

Over their graves tread now those who bow the neck and bear the burden and feed the wheels, and know the despair of that civilization which grinds hope from out the heart.

The one and the other came, departed, and will depart.

The one and the other, the bond and the free, the untamed and the broken, were pawns in the iron game of destiny.
The transient population of Ellisville, the cattle sellers and cattle buyers and land seekers, outnumbered three to one the resident or permanent population, which catered to this floating trade, and which supplied its commercial or professional wants.

The resident one third was the nucleus of the real Ellisville that was to be.