While the mothers of a number of sleeping infants were dancing, the boys changed the wraps which the babies wore and changed their positions, to the end that when the dance broke up, most of the parents started home with the wrong baby. As the discoveries were not made until the parents were at home, in some cases twenty miles from the scene, it took considerable time to straighten out the tangle of who was who in Babyland.

This incident, or its prototype, occurred at Alex Perry's on Little Horse creek, and the two miscreants, some of the mothers called them criminals, were Chris. Mitchell and Tom McShane.

Molly Woods, who taught school on Beaver creek, was one of the central characters in the story, and she married the Virginian.-

The book was quite true to the life of the west, twenty-five to forty years ago, and while the author selected his characters in this vicinity, they had their prototypes in many localities. The loves, the hates, the combats, the mischief makers, and all that went to make up life in the cow country, was found here, and elsewhere, wherever the range cattle roamed.

One of the old favorite poems, one which Abraham Lincoln often repeated was "we tread the same paths that our fathers have trod."

This sometimes runs so literally true that one thinks the writer thereof had lived long years. Take the story of the family of Astors, for illustration. In 1812 and 1813 Robert Stuart and his party of Astorians wintered a little north of Scottsbluff. and since then four generations of the Astors have had some calling back to the land of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming, although their interests here seemed to have terminated long ago.