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There were reat caravan which

reached over y turf and fat creek lands There were more

than a thousand children, eable maids pursued by avid swains There were bold souls

and weak, strong tearoups and coteries of kindred blood or kindred spirits

The rank and file had reasons enough for shifting There were a score of

Helens driving wagons--reasons in plenty for the futility of all

attempts to enforce an arbitrary rule of march Human equations, human

elements would shake thereat

caravan therefore was scantily less than a rabble for the first three or

four days out The four coluanization rolled on in a broken-crested wave, ten,

fifteen, twenty miles a day, the horse-and- only the cow coluside their swaying ox tea thar, ye Buck an' Star!" So soon

they passed the fork where the road to Oregon left the trail to Santa

Fé; topped the divide that held thereater valley of the

Kaw

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