John Duvale, a recent widower, got on a stagecoach in St. Louis to return to his home in Green River, Wyoming. The people he met on the stage were talking of a trip to California. The more they talked, the more he was persuaded to go along. It became a snowball effect. Two brothers, who were on the same stage, also decided to go along. As the story begins, they were making camp in the woods. They had exchanged their stagecoach for two covered wagons. They were going out on their own to...
