The easiest thing is ter starve us out." "But there are good men in this camp, law abiding men," interrupted the miner.

"What about them?
Won't they take a hand ?" "Maybe they might if I was free ter get 'em together; but I ain't.
Most o' 'em are out in the mines anyway; they don't know which party is right in this rumpus, an' they ain't got no leader.

Lacy runs the town, an' he's got a big gang o' toughs behind him.

There ain't nobody wants to buck up against his game.

Of course the boys might get mad after a while, but I reckon we'd be starved plumb ter death long afore that happened.