I have a letter from Koch in which he speaks of his connection with the Sand Hills station, which is located a few miles over the line in Wyoming, and he says : "eighteen miles west of Scottsbluff." This would indicate Robideaux Gap, far eighteen miles west of Mitchell Gap would not reach the state line.

It was shortly after the Grattan Massacre that Spotted Tail and a band of Sioux are credited with attacking this station as a stage from Salt Lake City was enroute east. They killed all the employes and the driver, and carried off twenty thousand dollars in gold, in twenty dollar gold pieces, belonging to the Livingston Kinkaides Company of Salt Lake City. General Harney made a demand for the perpetrators of the deed, and Spotted Tail and the party made their spectacular entry into Fort Laramie singing their death songs.

Another point of interest is just over the Wyoming line, near the northwest corner of Sioux county. It is one of the many branches of the Cheyenne river, not much more than a creek or canyon, occasionally widening to small hay valleys. In the early days it bore the Indian name "Big Beard." the same obtaining from the character of the grass that grew along the bank of the stream. But for the last generation it has held the name of "Crazy Woman," because of incidents and adventures I have heretofore written in a crude story of verse under the title of "The Sod Cabin."