Two or three other large cattle-ranches marched with us there.
A small Mormon settlement was not far off.

These Mormons were a most venturesome people and daring settlers.

Certainly they are the most successful colonists and a very happy people.

Living in close community, having little or no money and very little live stock to tempt Providence (rustlers), theirs is a peaceable, though possibly dull, existence.

They had frequent dances, but we Gentiles were not admitted to them.[1] [Footnote 1: _See_ Appendix, Note 1.] In winter one lives better than in the hot weather, table supplies being more varied.