Chapter 11 FROM THE RED RIVER VALLEY TO THE FOOTHILLS

It ain't the guns or armament nor the funds that they can pay,

But the close co-operation that makes them win the day;

It ain't the individual, nor the army as a whole,

But the everlastin' team-work of every bloomin' soul!

-Kipling.

At one of the early grain growers' conventions it had been voiced as an ideal that there were three th