Since that time the stage-coach has outdistanced the bull team, the pony express has swept past the stage-coach, the locomotive has done in an hour what the prairie schooner did in three or four days.

Soon the aeroplane will be racing with the automobile for the cross-country record.
But the bull team and the mule team were the continental carriers of that day, and I am very glad that I took part--on the winning side--in a race between them.
We soon began meeting parties of soldiers, and lightening our loads by issuing supplies to them.

When at last we reacted Fort Laramie, the outfit was ordered to Fort Walback, located in Cheyenne Pass, twenty-five miles from where Cheyenne stands today, and ninety miles from Fort Laramie.
This was in the very heart of the Indian country.

Our animals were to haul in plows, tools and whatever was necessary in the constructing of the new fort then building.

The wagon-beds were taken from the wagons to enable the hauling of greater loads.