They made six men, all with beards, of which my uncle was one, get off the train.
Not only that, the Rangers had made them get off the train without allowing them to take anything with them including their luggage --- and it was the dead of winter and freezing outside.
My uncle, after using the healing properties of indigenous plants he gathered up, soon found the man up and around.
The man with the rifle was the same man Hudson had been talking to.