Marsh, living near the river was a carpenter so went where he could work at his trade. Others, like Mr. I. H. Kimbel and Kirk McCall living near Oshkosh and George Gilliard near Lewellen, made money by hunting. They would come home with a wagon load of geese, ducks, etc. They would dress, pack in barrels and ship them to Denver or Omaha making enough to buy groceries for themselves and often for a less fortunate neighbor.

The hunting in this region was fine in the early days. The first winter Mr. Tom Campbell was in this county up by the lakes, he caught sixteen beaver, eight otter and sixteen deer besides many ducks, geese, etc. There were some buffalo and many droves of wild horses,- which would steal the domesticated horse, refusing to let them return to their owners. So a war was waged on the wild horses. A high hill about seventeen miles northeast of Oshkosh was used as a relay station for fresh horses in hunting the wild ones as they could see a bunch of horses a long distance from there. It is called Wild Horse hill. One outfit caught one hundred horses in one trip. Over in the canyons just south of Oshkosh is Wild Horse Corral, a natural corral formed by steep rocks, in which wild horses were trapped and caught.

There were fewer birds then, than now, many' felt that the birds were real friends by cheering up some lonely settlers with their bright happy songs. To illustrate some of the inconveniences of early settlers, one lady near Lisco used a baking powder can and a hammer handle for a coffee mill.