I often thought of the engine-driver, outside, watching over us and unflinchingly dragging us on.

I can stand off that stage driver so easy, that you'll wonder I don't take it up as a profession.

The second man in command was the assistant wagon-master; then came the "extra hand," next the night herder; and lastly, the cavallard driver, whose duty it was to drive the lame and loose cattle.

On horseback, there were six Mexicans, nominally cattle-drivers going to California, but really guards for the expeditionthe most courageous bullies that could be picked up in Santa Fé, each armed with pistols and a rifle.

It carries the mail and the village supplies and, less often, a traveler; and the driver, "Old Joe" Pike, has grown gray between the station and the Eagle Tavern.