For the most part they were slender, bronzed, and active, of twenty-five or thirty, with broad white hats (faded and flapping in the brim), gray or blue woolen shirts (once gay with red lacing), and dark pantaloons, tucked into tall boots with long heels.

Spurs jingled at the heels of their tall boots, and most of them wore bandannas of silk or cotton looped gracefully about their necks.

A few of the younger ones wore a sort of rude outside trouser of leather called "chaps," and each of them carried a revolver slung at the hip.

They were superb examples of adaptation to environment, alert, bold, and graceful of movement.
A relay of them were already at dinner, with a tin plate full of "grub" and a big tin cup steaming with coffee before each man.

They sat almost anywhere to eat, on saddles, wagon tongues--any convenient place.