They'll help hold the logs.

So long." He turned, and with the instinct of authority rode just a half length ahead of the others on the return.
Jesse Wingate, a sullen and discredited Achilles, held to his tent, and Molly did as much, her stout-hearted and just-minded mother being the main source of Wingate news.

Banion kept as far away from them as possible, but had Jed sent for.
"Jed," said he, "first thing, you get your boys together and go after the cattle.

Most of them went downstream with the wind.

The hobbled stuff didn't come back down the trail and must be below there too.