As the road formerly ran, one approached the hills from the long hot trip over the divide near the east side of Indian Springs draw. A few pine trees attracted the eye to the west and northwest, then suddenly there would appear a grand vista of Big Horn canyon. The approach was just at the head of an abrupt canyon where there is a spring, about half a mile south of Table mountain. The longer one looked, the more it inspired ; first the close-at-hand view, and then farther away across the wide valley of the Pumpkin, were

"Lover's Leap"

the castle walls of Kane's point; and to the northwest the mile high Wildcat and Hogback mountains towered.

I am not surprised that the Indians liked Indian Springs. I am not surprised that the two trails that led away across the valley led to Wildcat and to Kane's point. For at the distance these two held aloft their primitive and wilderness grandeur, inviting to the nature loving instinct in mankind.

From Indian Springs westward there is a low range of hills, in which I killed the only deer that ever fell from my gun. At the foot of these hills were I. L. Yoey, H. P. Hinds, Will S. McKee, and Levi Schooley in those

first years. Later the Fadens and Grant Brady ran their thousands of sheep on this range. J. S. Emerson's ranch occupies part of this acreage at the present time.

Nature gave Banner county the significant distinction of having within its borders several features of geological interest. Evidence points out that Horse creek formerly flowed south of Sixty-six mountain and down the valley of the Pumpkin. The wind drift of ages swept over and buried it in the west end of the county, but the flow of much of its water is through the sands and subterranean channels of the Pumpkin valley to this day.