He then kicked the broncho and it ran away, leaving him suspended. When found he was quite dead. Some of the boys were removing his boots preparatory for burial, when Smith, the foreman of the outfit, accused them of trying to steal a dead man's boots. The others were thinking only of the newer methods of burial, but Smith insisted on the old order being carried out. McFee was therefore buried with his boots on, at Fort Laramie.

Charlie Talbot, another old timer, is inspector in Omaha. Mose Howard was to be found about the stock yards for years, but he died recently. Wyatt Heard is in Texas. Henry Heard at Long Beach, California, E. A. Moots is at Lander and Thermopolis. Wyoming, Johnny Minser died on his farm near Fort Laramie, in 1918. One could go on naming the boys and their many destinies, but they were almost as numerous as the sands of the Great Sand Hills. A great many have gone on the "long, long trail." And out of these great stretches of waste or pasturage, have come a number of the stronger characters of Nebraska.

In the winter of 187S came one of the worst storms that had ever visited the western plains. It wrecked the finances of some of the cattle companies. But few of them were prepared for ,-i storm of such severity. It commenced on the seventh of March and lasted until the tenth.

The storm caught Tommy Chaunavierre ( Shunover), Bob Cavalier, and "Scotty," hunting mountain sheep. The)- had killed one on Wildcat mountain, before the storm struck, n headed for Dicky Brown's place at Kane' Point! Shunover was the one of the three to reach shelter. The other two hardy frontiersmen perished in the drifts on the way. After the storm, Cavalier was found near Sand Hill south of the Sunderling place, which is now (1919) owned by Theo.