<span>she helped to make fair trades and negotiations between the groups and served as an interpreter</span>
One of the key ideas of laissez-fair policies was that the government--both state and federal--would play an absolutely minimal role in the economic affairs of the public, since these people believed that government intervention hurt productivity.
Keeping in mind the description of the stone point given in the story, we can state Marshall the rancher was looking at a Folsom point.
As it's known, a Folsom is a kind of stone point with a leaf-like shape which has a concave base and wide, shallow grooves/flutes running almost the entire length of the point.
It’s the first one because the arrow needs to be right
Today, I wished I were dead. We are crowded into a tiny space. Animals are given more room to live. I am chained to the men on either side of me. One is sick. He is burning with fever and groans constantly. When he dies, I will be chained to a dead man. I feel sick, too, but it is only the smell turning my stomach. My nose is filled with the odors of sickness and dirt and human waste. I would give anything for a breath of clean air. But I cannot ask. If I do, I will be whipped until I cannot stand. I am afraid I will not survive this journey.