C. Wayne Winkle

“saw the wagon master looking out to the clearing in the middle of the circle. What looked like all of the people from the train approached them. One man seemed to be leading the group. Gage recognized him but didn’t recall the man’s name. “Mr. Colburn, we need to talk,” the man said when he stopped in front of Colburn. “Okay, Mr. Phillips, talk.” Colburn sipped a cup of coffee. “We heard what the men found out at that ranch. Don’t you think that means we should turn back, maybe go back to Kearney and wait for the Army to round up those Indians?” Colburn studied the man over the rim of his cup before answering. At the same time, he glanced at the faces of the people standing in front of him. “I thought we all agreed to go on to Montana from Kearney,” Colburn said.”
― C. Wayne Winkle, Trouble on the Western Plains