It came with the events that were forming about him.

For the war between the states had left the men restless and unsatisfied who had come into the plain to make their homes.

They had heard and followed in their youth the call John Barclay was hearing, and after the war was over, they were still impatient with the obstacles they found in their paths.

So Sycamore Ridge and Minneola, being rival towns, had to fight.

The men who made these towns knew no better settlement than the settlement by force.