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.

Up on the table it was often two hundred to four hundred feet to water, costing $1.50 per foot for driving a well as many were short of monev thev were obliged to haul

water long distances, from four to nine miles. In such cases they didn't have much stock and would drive them to a pool or lagoon or take them with them when they went after water.

The prairie fires would come roaring over the land taking everything "in its course. The best protection in such cases were strips of plowing, wide enough to prevent the fire from jumping across. Mrs. Jones, Mary Henderson then, was living on her homestead west of town and had Pearl Jensen staying with her. They saw a prairie fire over east of Oshkosh. They were worried at first, then concluded that the fire couldn't get past Oshkosh so went

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to sleep About ten o'clock they were awakened by the bright' light from the fire which had come quite close to them. They dressed hurriedly, took sacks and water to beat it away from the house and corral. Mrs. Jones' brother, Lee Henderson, had gathered a large pile of wood for her winter's supply. The fire got into that and burned it up, almost getting to the house. The two women worked until morning when the fire had passed.