as this man on the mule floated near us , screeching and screaming something at first unintelligible , we came gradually to understand his words and know that he bellowed so loudly in order to impersonate governor ______ , our first territorial governor , on his famous year-long trek across the midwestern united states which eventually saw him arrive in northern arizona ; the fat saddlebags strapped to the mules tremendous rump , he repeatedly patted , and they were crammed to the brim with solid , disc-like buffalo chips that this man boasted to have collected on a journey across the plains , ready to make a fine fire for anyones evening camp ; besides his shouts of good cheer and his offers to share the fabulous hoard of buffalo chips with members of the crowd ( and they screamed whenever he untied a saddlebag and rode toward them holding out one of the rigid golden pies ) we enjoyed the bristly black sideburns which festooned both sides of his face ; his cheeks were so hairy from the false pieces that he had a strange , monkey-like quality ; the pair of massive whiskers , which were so obviously fake , had been slathered with spirit gum and pressed to his skin , though the glue hadnt stuck .