Malloy, and others, who were at times almost within hailing distance, and plain in view for the greater part of the twenty miles.

They had witnessed a splendid triumph of mind over matter. The obsession of Jimmy's intellect in the one determination to ride in the one particular wagon, and intense interest in the lines of conversation, obscured the slightest flash of reasoning that by waiting a few moments at the roadside, one of the succeeding wagons could overtake him.

THE FIRST GRANGERS -- MURDER OF COLLINS AT CAMP CLARKE -- SHERIFF CAMPBELL GETS DOC. ROMINE -- BEGINNING OF MINATARE

About five miles east of Scotts Bluff mountain, and two or three miles northeast of the Overland stage and pony express stopping place, which in the younger years was called "Scotts Bluff Station," there is a log house. This house is a commodious one-story building, the logs being hewn from the native pines, which in earlier days crowned the hills, encircling round to the south, and from which the sturdy energy of pioneers made their habitations.

In the turbulent years of the Overland Trail, Howard Stansbury wrote of the great dead forest of red cedar, fallen as if destroyed

by a storm, and young pines were growing in the midst thereof.

These pines had reached the proportions of sizeable house-logs when the pioneers of a generation ago availed themselves of the gift of nature, to build homes, barns, sheds, corrals, and they took the dead cedars and dry pitch pine logs for fence posts and fuel.