Each wagon ought to be required to carry anyhow half a side of rawhide, and the usual tools of the farm and the trail, as well as proper weapons and abundance of ammunition.
"No man ought to be allowed to start with this caravan with less supplies, for each mouth of his wagon, than one hundred pounds of flour.
One hundred and fifty or even two hundred would be much better--there is loss and shrinkage.

At least half as much of bacon, twenty pounds of coffee, fifty of sugar would not be too much in my own belief.

About double the pro rata of the Santa Fe caravans is little enough, and those whose transport power will let them carry more supplies ought to start full loaded, for no man can tell the actual duration of this journey, or what food may be needed before we get across.

One may have to help another." Even Wingate joined in the outspoken approval of this, and Banion, encouraged, went on: "Some other things, men, since you have asked each man to speak freely.
We're not hunters, but home makers.

Each family, I suppose, has a plow and seed for the first crop.