He held out from September until the following July, when a visit to Ogallala, and the meeting of some old friends, ended in a spree of unusual dimension'.

John was a brother of Al Stringfellow, who was with the late Bay State round-ups in western Nebraska. Al was the fellow who, with Bill Kelly, at the wedding of Ed. A. Boots and "Dude" Wright on Pumkin creek, were found in the grey dawn playing "andy over" the hay stack with their six-shooters.

Dick Bean was another of Paxton's "favorites," who while one of the finest fellows on the range, and one of the best cowmen in the Ogallala outfits, also had a weakness for strong drink. Bean could single out a steer and drive it through fire and water, and he could stick to the back of a horse, but he could not drive a team. It would always ramble about at will. Most of the teams were gentle cow-ponies broken to harness, and they would rather take to the prairies than follow the road. This inability to drive caused his death in 1894 under a load o+ lumber, which he was hauling to the North river to build a house for himself and wife on a small ranch that he had picked out for their future home.

Charles Stepp had a little affair with Bean that illustrates his peculiar characteristics. Stepp had charge of a bunch of cattle that had to cross the river a little below Camp Clarke and Bean was to assist. The river was high, and the cattle turned down stream when they reached the deep water, and commenced to swim. Bean was looking after the lead cattle to keep them from turning about, and start a mid-stream mill -- or circling movement. Stepp became excited, and shouted to Bean to head them off and turn them to the other shore.