It was a pleasant moment when all complete we were preparing our first meal ; the bacon odor filled the cabin, the coffee was steaming, the bread was baking in a skillet that leaned so that the heat from the fire would cook it one side at a time. The art of turning it when one side was done is familiar to all people of the west -- tossing it into the air and then catching it in the skillet as it came down.

I remember at Ashford, Charlie Gilpin and I were the guests of W. W. White at his claim shack near Funnel Rock, and Charlie tried the experiment of turning a flapjack in the air, with the usual result of first experience. The "batter" side hit the wall about six feet from the floor and smeared a trail as far as gravity would take it. It is saying nothing against White as a housekeeper that the batter dried where it hit, and was there when he made final proof on the claim some months later.

The first Sunday school in Hackberry neighborhood was organized in the spring of 1887, by James Hadley, who called a few of the neighbors together at the claim house of Cora Oliver. Mr. Hadley was chosen superintendent. After the Oliver log school house was built, the Sunday school was held there.

A little later another Sunday school was organized in the residence of A. B. (Briley) Randleman near Table mountain in the Big Horn valley. Active in the work were Mr. and Mrs. Randleman, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Deaton, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Cashier, Grant Allen and others. They named the historian as superintendent. Grant Allen was the originator of the idea that developed into a Sunday School picnic held in Hackberry canyon.