They met at the Cottage, and made merry in large fashion, seeing that this was a large land, and new, and unrestrained.
Land and cattle, cattle and land.

These themes were upon the lips of all, and in those days were topics of peace and harmony.

The cattleman still stood for the nomadic and untrammelled West, the West of wild and glorious tradition.

The man who sought for land was not yet recognised as the homesteader, the man of anchored craft, of settled convictions, of adventures ended.

For one brief, glorious season the nomad and the home dweller shook hands in amity, not pausing to consider wherein their interests might differ.