She tried every wile known to a woman's heart to get him to give up his intended journey, she held their little brown baby up to be kissed, and then clung to him pleading with him. But when she knew that it was useless to plead longer, she hugged her child to her bosom and ran shrieking into the night. Their second son, soon to be, was prematurely born, as the result of the intensity of her emotion.

Two years later Captain Hobbs did come back, and her joy was wonderfully manifest. The boy was as wild as a deer, and it was a long time before he would come near his father.

Yet with all the wealth of affection which many a squaw bestowed upon her husband, she had nothing to say in the matter of selection of a mate. All these details were arranged by the sire, who usually traded his promising young girls for ponies. Occasionally there were attachments, which were stronger than filial mandates.

Along the old stage road, south of Harrisburg, and over on the White river, there are two rocks, similarly named, and which obtained the name from similar circumstances. In each case a Sioux father had sold his daughter to a young Ogallala brave, but in each case that Indian maiden had a sweetheart of her own. The story of the Banner county episode is this :

The village was situated on the little tableland where in 1885 Vance Cross homesteaded, just south of Long Springs branch, then unnamed, and the Ogallala had brought his ponies. On the morrow he was to claim his bride. She secretly left her lodge and found her sweetheart and they were making away