I think she had buried a round half dozen husbands, before she met Tommy Chanavierre (Shunover) and in the late eighties Tommy was her spouse -- the one we knew. Tommy was the one whose pride of ancestry runs back to the time when Marchioness La Pompadour was spreading the French Empire over the western world, but to us he was merely a jolly old Frenchman, who liked to talk with his hands, his shoulders and otherwise, and who, merely for the love of activity and society, went visiting about the country in "dat old buckboard," with "dem old plug." "Shunover" died in Iowa. I am not advised if "Aunt Delia" survived to marry again.

CREIGHTON'S -- THE FIRST RANCH OF ALL -- DEATH OF CREEL IN BULL CANYON -- TOM KANE'S ADVENTURE -- A COWBOY WEDDING

After the loss of his cattle on Rush creek in 1865, John A. Creighton decided to get out of the lines of the regular raids of Indians. It seemed that their north and south line of travel centered in the territory east of Court I [ouse rock.

It will be observed also that this line was the path of the buffalo at an earlier date, and it later became the route of the travelers into the gold field of the Black Hills, where Henry

T. Clarke's steel lined stages went over the old toll bridge. Now the travel is by motor, or over the Burlington.

Creighton went west up Gonneville or Pumpkin creek. Then over to Horse creek, and up to the Laramie Plains. Here he built a substantial set of ranch buildings, securing the materials from the Laramie mountains.