Sometimes it happened that a man tamped posts or helped stretch wire all day, and then stood guard two or three hours on the herd at night; which was wearing on the temper.

Sometimes, because they were tired, they quarreled over small things.
New shipments of cattle, too, kept coming to Dry Lake.

Invariably these would be driven out towards Antelope Coulee--farther if the drivers could manage it--and would have to be driven back again with what patience the Happy Family could muster.

No one helped them among the settlers.

There was every attitude among the claim-dwellers, from open opposition to latent antagonism.