The August sun makes itself known early the 41st morning out of San Antone. The cowboys round up the herd and the Major leads the way toward the Red River.
Rojas is still cleaning up after breakfast, as usual, when General Washington starts the herd moving. The chuck wagon will follow the beeves. And Major Gray instructs Randy and Silas to cross with the Remuda after the herd crosses--he says to choose a flank for the 2 or 3 miles to the river.
The Major, Quirley, Cole and General Washington reach the crossing and begin to funnel the beeves as on previous crossings. JEB on the right flank and Travis on the left move up to the south side of the river, as instructed by the Major, while the leaders cross with the front of the herd. Yellow and Meri are further back on the flanks, still funneling cattle toward the crossing. Meanhwile, the men at the drags are a ways back still, keeping the herd moving as usual.
Rojas and the chuck wagon are well behind the herd. Randy has slowed the Remuda and moved off to the flank, waiting.
As Cole and Quirley hold the point on the north side of the river, with the first hundred head already across, the Major joins them. He seems to be in a rush--in fact, he rides up up the slight slope waving his hat. Cole and Quirley look north and see a group of riders galloping toward the herd.
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OOC: The following map is the starting point. State your first single action, roll initiative and make any related roll for action, if applicable. Despite what the map says, the scale is 60 ft per square. The chits are out of scale; made them larger than they should be for ease of use. Each chit assumes a rider and mount. If a chit is off the color portion of the map, it is off the map and will need to move to reach the map. For the men in the No Buffalo outfit, it should be easy to figure out, mostly, who is who based on the starting positions, but I will post a key for the NPCs soon.
http://www.doghouserules.net/d.../goin/red_river1.pdf
