The plan failed, and Creel

was killed, and Bull Canyon became only a name and a memory.

Tom Kane used to run the ranges of the Pumpkin creek country. Kane was known in Sidney in the early days. One day he had a brush with the Indians, and escaped into the rushes on the creek bank ten miles east of Wild Cat mountain, where he lay three days caring for his wound before he managed to get away.

And from that fact, occurring about 1874, the point of rock that extends into the valley just west of Wright's Gap became known as Kane's Point. This part of the Wild Cat range is one of the beauty spots of nature, and the long wall of windworn rocks that extends from Kane's Point to the northwest, in back of Kelly's ranch, resembles the ruins of a Frowning City built by hands.

John Wright came to Pumpkin creek from Horse creek in 1877; he earlier resided in Colorado. Finding some rich, unappropriated natural meadows in the vicinity of Kane's Point, he settled down and proceeded to accumulate cattle. It was adjoining the Wright ranch that I located a homestead in the middle eighties, and I remember meeting John Wright shortly after.

He was driving by, and stopped to watch me turn over the sod with my grasshopper breaker. , In the course of our conversation I said that it would be a mighty good thing if the grangers and the cowmen could dwell together in harmony. John exclaimed that I was the first granger that he had ever heard say such a thing, and asked me why I thought so. I told him that I thought the cowmen would furnish a home market for the product of the granger, to which he agreed.