For years Sarah had resisted it, thinking of the hardships and perils in the way of the mover.

Samson, a man of twenty-nine when he set out from his old home, was said to be "always chasing the bird in the bush." He was never content with the thing in hand.

There were certain of their friends who promised to come and join them when, at last, they should have found the land of plenty.

But most of the group that bade them good-by thought it a foolish enterprise and spoke lightly of Samson when they were gone.
America has undervalued the brave souls who went west in wagons, without whose sublime courage and endurance the plains would still be an unplowed wilderness.

Often we hear them set down as seedy, shiftless dreamers who could not make a living at home.