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-LRB- Egad , see the little devil ! -RRB- We traveled in two parallel lines , about fifty feet apart and kept the spare cattle and remounts of horses , as also the small provision teams between the lines . A cavalcade of train owners and mayordomos was constantly scouting in all directions , but they never ventured out of sight of the traveling teams . We started daily at sunrise and traveled till noon or until we made the distance to our next watering place . Then we camped and turned our live stock out to rest and crop the prairie grass . After several hours we used to resume our journey until nightfall or later to our next camping ground . Every man had to take his turn about at herding cattle and horses during the nighttime .