Men talked hopefully of the future; children reveled in the novelty of the present; but the
women-ah, there was where the situation bore heaviest. As one old lady remarked, Texas
is heaven for men and dogs, but (hard) for women and oxen. They-the women-talked
sadly of the old homes and friends left behind, so very far behind it seemed then, of the
hardships and bitter privations they were undergoing and the dangers that surrounded
them