Do-ee mind, now, the hull Sioux nation's just in ahead o' us, other side the river! Yet these people didn't want to ford to the south side the Platte; they wanted to stick north o' the river.

Ef we had, we'd have our ha'r dryin' by now.

I tell ye, the tribes is out to stop the wagon trains this spring.

They say too many womern and children is comin', an' that shows we want to take their land away fer keeps.
"From now on to Oregon--look out! The Cayuses cleaned out the Whitman mission last spring in Oregon.

Even the Shoshones is dancin'.