These people was mostly kinfolks of the family.

The men brought their guns with them.

It was a handsome lot of quality, I tell you.
There was another clan of aristocracy around there--five or six families -- mostly of the name of Shepherdson.

They was as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords.

The Shepherdsons and Grangerfords used the same steamboat landing, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when I went up there with a lot of our folks I used to see a lot of the Shepherdsons there on their fine horses.
One day Buck and me was away out in the woods hunting, and heard a horse coming.