Frank McCreary of Scottsbluff,) who was then foreman at the Circle Block, and who recently died in Arizona, was riding "Old Fox," as the

horse was called, when he came upon a bunch of wild horses. Old Fox so quickly overtook them that Robb did not have time to get his lariat into action. He seized one of them by the tail, and threw her off her step, and so delayed her progress, that another cowman on a slower horse, roped and captured a pretty young mare.

A little before, and during the trouble of Jim Shaw over the Collins shooting affair at Camp Clarke bridge, the horse was taken care of by Chris Streeks, the veteran "line rider," and Old Fox was the favorite riding horse of the young lady who later became the wife of the writer of this history. The horse was Kentucky bred, and was of such fine spirit that after getting settled in Nevada, Mr. Sparks had him shipped to that state.

L. J. Wyman, went to work for Sturgis & Lane in 1882, and he made his home in the famous old soddy for years. He owned the place until this year (1919) and has the distinction of being very nearly the first permanent settler in Scotts Bluff county. Charley Foster contests with him this honor, and he may have a short time the best of it.

Sturgis & Lane organized the Union Cattle Company, and Mr. Goodell was one of the big stockholders. The Bridle-Bit brand was theirs, and it was one familiar to the early grangers. This company is credited with hiring men from the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne, and the women of the wild district, as well as cowboys, to file upon lands. Be that as it may, it secured a vast acreage, much of which will come under the Fort Laramie government canal for irrigation.