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At Fort Laramie two large trains were put in charge of Lew Simpson, as brigade wagon-master, and Will was installed as courier between the two caravans, which traveled twenty miles apart plenty of elbow room for camping and foraging.
Still farther to the west lay three little houses on the level "bench," by the swift-running stream the homes of the corral-master, the wagon-master and the veterinarian civilians all, as then ordained, yet men who had lived their lives with the army on the frontier.
The American freighters, since the occupation of New Mexico by the United States, until the transcontinental railroad usurped their vocation, used wagons only; the Mexican nomenclature was soon dropped and simple English terms adopted: caravan became train, and majordomo, the person in charge, wagon-master. The latter was supreme.
Bob Scott, the Stage Driver The Story of the Most Reckless Piece of Stage Driving that ever Occurred on the Overland Road. The Civil War Jayhawking Wild Bill's Fight with the McCandless Gang of Desperadoes I become Wild Bill's Assistant Wagon-Master We Lose our Last Dollar on a Horse Race He becomes a Government Scout He has a Duel at Springfield.
He rose to his feet and blazed away, the shot rousing everbody, and all came rushing with their guns to learn what the matter was. Wooton told the wagon-master that he had seen what he supposed was an Indian trying to slip up to the mules, and that he had killed him.
The wagon train was a mile in the rear, and when it came up, one of the drivers asked: "How are we going down there?" "Run down, slide down or fall down any way to get down," said I. "We never can do it; it's too steep; the wagons will run over the mules," said another wagon-master. "I guess not; the mules have got to keep out of the way," was my reply.
One day when he had ridden into Leavenworth Buffalo Billy met his old friend, Wild Bill, who was fitting out a train with supplies for the Overland Stage Company, and he was at once persuaded to join him in the trip West going as assistant wagon-master.
We were two days making this twenty miles. Here we stopped, but the wagon-master and I started next morning on foot for the summit. While we were on the mountain we could hear the other train coming so we walked on to meet it and see if we could assist them in any way.
The Wild Mustangs. Hal and Ned. The Black and the Bay. Manuel the Herder. The Mustang-breaker. Life on a Stock Ranche. A Sudden Start. On the Road. The Lone Mule. The Stampede. Attacked by Comanches. Under the Wagons. The Lost Stock. Jerry Vance the Wagon-master. His Pluck is aroused. We take the Trail. The Comanche Camp. A Surprise. The Result. Visitors. Cuchillo, the Comanche Chief.
The wagon-master, in the language of the plains, was called the "bull-wagon boss"; the teamsters were known as "bull-whackers"; and the whole train was denominated a "bull-outfit." Everything at that time was called an "outfit."
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