The harnesses were rotting on the wagon tongues. That Stemler knew of these wagons, that in the solitudes and the isolation he came in touch with People already gone, that in some way he connected up with Them, and Intelligence went through Experiences and in Companionship of possibly ten years before, is an explanation satisfactory to many old plainsmen, who have heard Voices out of the past, when alone in the silence of the prairie.)

THE RIDE OF DAN DILLON AND OTHERS-- THE START OF THE TENAS TRAIL

A few years ago (1916) I met Dan Mc- Ulvane and Colin Hunter in Cheyenne and had a long talk with them of early ranch life. McUlvane was pretty nearly an old timer when he went into the cow business in 1870. Six years before, or in 1864, he had whacked bulls from Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, under the government wagon boss, Merin Carlisle.

Colin Hunter, who since 1872 had a ranch at the confluence of Little Horse creek with Horse creek proper, recently died in Cheyenne. He owned the old ranch at the time of his death, and his son. Tom Hunter, still owns it. Tom has an office in Cheyenne. Colin Hunter was coming with a wagon train to Fort Laramie in 1867, when, on July 4th, the sound of guns attracted their attention. The sight of the blue coats gave them some apprehension. When the shooting subsided, they found the soldiers and a civilian or two, with one dead white man in their midst.