Seein' hit's the way hit is, I move we vote to do what Will Banion has said is fitten.

An' I move we-uns throw in with the big train, with Jess Wingate for cap'n.

An' I move we allow one more day to git in supplies an' fixin's, an' trade hosses an' mules an' oxens, an' then we start day atter to-morrow mornin' when the bugle blows.

Then hooray fer Oregon!" There were cheers and a general rising, as though after finished business, which greeted this.

Jesse Wingate, somewhat crestfallen and chagrined over the forward ways of this young man, of whom he never had heard till that very morning, put a perfunctory motion or so, asked loyalty and allegiance, and so forth.
But what they remembered was that he appointed as his wagon-column captains Sam Woodhull, of Missouri; Caleb Price, an Ohio man of substance; Simon Hall, an Indiana merchant, and a farmer by name of Kelsey, from Kentucky.