Page 67 of the Wagon Train 1961 annual:
So went the wagon trains, braving dangers from redskins, sudden storms, deadly snakes, shortage of water, dust storms that could bury a whole train in an hour, blizzards that often came out of season to take men unawares, and a whole host of other perils. Bandits were there, too, waiting to pounce upon the last wagons if they happened to have lagged behind a little. Sometimes bad men formed themselves into companies, lived in tent-towns and raided the wagon trains that they thought were the least protected by the guards.
People died on the trail, babies were born, couples were married by travelling clergymen on their way to serve some small mining village or cattle town away out West. Deeds of heroism were performed that would have earned a whole stack of George Crosses. Yes, and all the time the wagon train, large or small, would go steadily on, nearing its goal with every turn of the great wagon wheels.
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