They had come from different states and often they were of differing counsels, but a common danger would draw them together.

It was significant that Smith, the New Yorker, and Bowie, the Georgian, rode side by side.
All through the hot sun of the afternoon they rode on.

Twilight found them still riding.

Far in the night they waded and swam the Rio Grande, and the next morning they stood on the soil that now is Texas..