fannie owens smuggles in a file, breaks out her husband and. they run off down the santa fe trail, making scandal even worse. now it's bonnie and clyde. it's statewide going national. so owens is james being is in the hot seat for making all of this happen. he was just trying to do the right thing, bad bad luck. so that's all fine and good. but now the sort of the narrative shifts to sam being sam being in the army. he is on the march into mexico and owens, who was so distraught over his situation and being a fugitive is humiliated, wants to leave town like a lot of santa fe traders, the people in missouri were on the santa fe trail. they want to beat the army to, get their final deals into mexico so they ship load up as much of their wagons and they ship him out and he goes with them. he usually doesn't. he wants get out of town and there's going to be a regime. all the big businessmen want to be there for it to make a short story, long sam beans marching. they up to owens and they absorb his wagon train make him a major so now major is marchin