Fowler asked $1,400.00 for the whole acreage, which Harper thought was too much.

But Fowler sold it to an Iowa man by the name of Battleax, I believe, and he immediately offered to sell it for $2,200.00. Harper again refused to buy it, and Battleax sold to Bickel, another Iowa man. Bickel again tilted the price, and Harper, as he relates it, says : "I was afraid to take any more chances on Iowa men, and so negotiated its purchase for $3,200.00, and a new wagon."

When Redington was attacked by the ''selling fever," he offered his one hundred and sixty acres which contained some beautiful timber and about a mile of the creek, for $800.00. It also contained some valuable hay ground. Harper made him an alternate offer which he accepted. Harper was to put twenty cows on the place and Redington was to care for them. At the end of three years, all the increase of the herd was to belong to Redington and the land to belong to Harper; and Harper was to make up the calf shortage each year, so that Redington was to have the full number of calves to start. Redington made some money by the transaction and Harper made more in the long run. About five years ago he sold the land to Neihus brothers for $19,250.00

AN INDIAN WAGON RACE -- BUILDING CAMP CLARKE BRIDGE -- ROUND-UP

WILD WEST SHOWS -- TOM HORN'S OUTLAW HORSE -- SIX

THOUSAND CATTLE MILLING IN THE RIVER