The remittance men are poor farmers, as a rule.

They are idle and lazy except when it comes to riding, hunting and similar sports.

Their greatest industry is cattle raising, yet these foreign born "cowboys" constitute an entirely different class from those of American extraction, found in Texas and on the plains of the Central West.

They are educated and to an extent cultured, being "gentlemen born" but sad backsliders in the practise of the profession.

Because other ranchers hesitate to associate with them they congregate in settlements of their own, and here in Arizona, on the banks of the Bill Williams Branch of the Colorado River, they form almost the total population.
Our friends had hoped to make the little town of Gerton for the night, but the road was so bad that Wampus was obliged to drive slowly and carefully, and so could not make very good time.