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The Covered Wagon

CHAPTER XV
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But if one man can handle them, he can handle us.

An Army man with a Western experience--who'll it be unless it is their man?
So.

Mister Chairman, I move for a committee of three, yourself to be one, to ride down and ask the Missourians to join on again, all under Major Banion." "I'll have to second that," said a voice.

Price saw a dozen nods.
"You've heard it, men," said he.

"All in favor rise up." They stood, with not many exceptions--rough-clad, hard-headed, hard-handed men of the nation's vanguard.


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