Christopher was driving a buckboard wagon with a large item in the bay behind. It was covered with a tarp, and was said to be a yard tall and that it filled the entire buckboard.

His men all carried bedrolls and Winchester 1873's on their saddles. Some carried the rifles cradled in their arms, as they rode.

They were last seen meeting at the depot, with a woman, and a chinaman. The woman boarded the stage, and the chinaman took to the buckboard, while the half-dozen men accompanied Christopher and his buckboard North.

Rumours suggest Great Falls as their destination.

Who knows what this means, but this is the second wagon, accompanied by armed men, from the Quintan Ranch, to head to Great Falls inside a week.

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