Maryk Lewis

Unless they had the protection of a regiment of soldiers, banks at that time were most reluctant to move large amounts of cash or bullion. Johnnie Bell and his friends had just sold a huge herd of longhorns to the hungry miners on the goldfields, and wanted to buy replacement stock at the cattle yards away down river. The soldiers were busy. If the cowboys wanted their money at the cattle yards, they knew they would have to take it there themselves. Trouble was every outlaw in a dozen western territories also knew.