The range varies from two or three to five or six miles wide, and the two spurs terminating at the north with the Scottsbluft' mountain, and at the south with the Wildcat mountain, makes an extreme width of about fifteen miles.

In this forty-five miles range, there is one natural pass for travel, being known as Wright's Gap and is south of Melbeta. A number of other passages were used, but were much more difficult: there is Round House Gap, Williams Gap, Birdcage Gap, Rifle Gap, The V. and perhaps a few others. The present state and federal aid highway south of Scottsbluff and Gering is entirely artificial. The cattle trails ran here and there over the hills, and because this was almost directly south of the original town of Gering, a precarious roadway was made, and it was used

for freighting and stage traffic. According to present standards it would be "a pretty tough road."

But the builders either by accident or design made it run through very picturesque canyons and over a high ridge that gave one a magnificent view of the lesser hills and the distant pine and cedar fringed mountains, as well as of the valleys smooth and fair.

To the southwest were Wildcat and Hogback with their mile high summits towering above their contemporaries, and across the valley south of Lover's Leap. Southeast were Table Mountain and the Big Horns and eastward was Chinese Wall, on the south side of the range, and Castle Rock and Sheep Mountain on the north side. ' The spire of Chimney Rock, and the pile of Court House Rock were hidden by other elevations.