What happened to the narrator's luggage in Medicine Bow?

When the narrator arrives in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, he disembarks from his train to discover that his luggage has been lost. This, he says, is "news which made me feel a stranger indeed." His baggage has been left "somewhere back in the two thousand miles that lay behind me." He is very disconsolate about this development, even as a porter tries to reassure him that lost baggage is not uncommon, and that it is often recovered. The whole incident, as the narrator relates, is not only very annoying—it serves to underscore how far from home he is. He has arrived from the East, and is in a very different world than the one he left behind. But he is quickly distracted from this inconvenience when he eavesdrops on a conversation between a young cowboy whom he has witnessed roping a pony and another, older man. The young cowboy is the Virginian, and he teases the older man for his quickness in entering into marriage. As the exchange ends, and the old man departs, the narrator begins to despair, not only about his luggage, but about the fact that he is in the middle of nowhere, with no idea how to reach his destination. It turns out that the Virginian is there to meet him, sent by Judge Henry to guide him to his ranch. The incident with the luggage symbolizes how the narrator, an Easterner, is cut off from the world he left behind, a very different one than Wyoming. This is further underscored when, standing at the train station, he turns to watch the train head east "toward the far shores of civilization." The Virginian, born in the East but now living in the West, is one of several characters who is a sort of connection between the two, and his appearance reassures the shaken narrator, who is introduced through him to this wild new land.
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