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With the first thin line of pink the coyotes hanging on the flanks of

the great encampment raised their is were stilled by a new and sterner voice--the notes of

the bugle suht to the duties of the

first day Down the line from watch to watch passed the Plains co of the juon irls went out into the deet grass to round up the

transport stock A vast confusion, a medley of unskilled endeavor marked

the hour But after an hour's wait, adjusted to the situation, the next

order passed down the line: "Roll out! Roll out!"

And now the un! The first dust cut by an

ox hoof was set in motion by the whip crack of a barefooted boy in jeans

who had no dreah in the councils of his

state, at the edge of an ocean which no prairie boy ever had envisioned

The coroves,

pointed into a sea of green along the valley of the Kaw The grass, not

yet tall enough fully to ripple as it would a half round which the semicivilized Indians had