Don Wildman

I mean, it's hard life, those four or five months that you're in the middle there.

The sweet spot, I guess, was March, April, and May.

That's when you would leave so that you were getting there, as you say, not too late, not too early.

These trains did not leave alone, right?

You hired those handsome guides we saw in the movies.

John Wayne.

Moral background.

Yeah, they were courageous.

But seriously, though, there must have been companies that serviced this opportunity, right?

But the organization is what I'm always curious about, you know, because this is a vast operation.

You have how many wagons made up the average train?

It.

I do want to get to that, but I can understand the potential stench that's coming off of one of these dragon shells might be enough for Native Americans to say, yeah, go about your business.

We're not anywhere close here.

I'm kidding.

Of course.

We don't want to get into the details of that.

They would follow landmarks on this trail, signposts, I suppose you call them.

And these would be sort of morale boosters, I understand.

The Platte River.