“Take them to Missouri, Mathew”, and Dunson turned his broad back on the herd that must travel one thousand miles to market. A thousand miles! And a thousand deaths. Coyotes and wolves..badlands, dry wells, stampedes- ten miles a day, fifteen with luck…Mathew motioned to Teeler: “Move ‘em out…!”…“Hi…!,” called the rider, “Hi-yaaa! We’re off to Missoura-hi-yaaaa!”…Dust lifted in a sullen cloud. The great beasts stirred.
-Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail, Borden Chase, whose characters Dunson, Mathew, and Teeler were played in the film Red River by John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Paul Fix
KhairAllah hoped to make better time with his herd than fifteen miles a day on the thousand mile Kordofan-to-Cairo trail. If not, he’d get to Misr, Egypt, about a month late off the Way of the Forty and Hajj Bashir would not be happy. And I’d be a bit late myself getting to Missouri, if I still lived there.