He built a cart, nailing two thicknesses of boards together crosswise and trimming them into shape for wheels. The tire was a curved ash root nailed on this. The hub was an ash stump and the shafts were ash poles ; all topped off with a bed large enough to carry half a wagon load. With his horse "Old Jim*' and this cart he gathered bones and hauled them to Big Springs to pay for groceries. In fact, all his hauling was done in the old cart for a number of years. His pitchfork was an ash limb with three branches for prongs. Mr. Clary bad preserved the old cart and pitchfork for years; but

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a prairie tire finally ate them up. The old stone house on his tree claim in the Hollow was built by himself. He hauled the stone and logs with his one horse, cart and sled.

Mr. W. H. Gilliard and Dennis Clary laid out the Ash Hollow cemetery, where Rachel Pattison was buried. She was a young girl who had been shot by the Indians in 1849, while she was going to the spring at the mouth of the Hollow. These old men wished to be buried there, and their request was granted. There is a large cemetery there now, and here was placed and dedicated, one of the Oregon Trail monuments.

Rock at Ash Hollow, near Spring

The Killing of the Last Two Buffalo

In 1886, a band of Sioux Indians came down from the Reservation in South Dakota. They reached the Blue and startled the settlers somewhat ; but it proved to be merely a hunting expedition, finding so little game they had resorted to killing cattle for food. They found and killed the last two buffalo in this section.