In the distress that came on the people in those days, one means of making money presented itself, and many availed themselves of it.

Gold had been discovered at Pike's Peak, and thitherward had flocked a great multitude of people.
There were no railroads, and all supplies had to be carried across the plains in freighting wagons.

This business was carried on by the roughest class of a rough and frontier population; still, it was an honest business, and honest men might lawfully engage in it, provided they had the hardihood to face the dangers and exposures of such a life.
During the years 1862, 1863 and 1864, I went into this business with a small freighting outfit.

This certainly was not just the thing for a preacher to do, but necessity knows no law.

In the spring of 1862, Bro.