Page 68 and the end of the Wagon Train story sees the settlers on their way out west:
Finally, let us say that it wasn’t all danger and hardship. When the wagon trains halted for the night and the camp-fires were lighted and, at last, a hot meal was eaten by hungry men, women and children, then would men with musical instruments of all kinds, from the fiddle to the hunble jew’s harp, strike up a song of the West or, maybe, some old tune that reminded the emigrants of the homes they had left for ever.
Then the canvas flaps of the great wagons would be laced securely and the emigrants would wrap themselves in their blankets for the night. Yet not all would sleep away the hours of darkness. Shadowy figures, each with a gun in the crook of his arm, would keep guard, ready to give the alarm the moment that danger threatened. Thus did men and women and carefree children of all ages pioneer their way across a great continent in the covered wagon trains of the days of the Golden West.
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