Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1920, Page 5

| ; i] | | THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920. HOLE-IN-THE-WALL ROMANTIC SPOT OF WILD WEST FORMER HAVEN OF OUTLAWS NOW PEACEFUL VALLEY 7 > ing was us larvey Logan, or he was bet ut of the brush and stood looking at, The Bannock Indian uprising was on| was pine of sad oid z He ormer ert (@) stinpedtiautenis!44\a ‘and word came down into! ter known, ‘Kid Curry.’ He was th je COW LOY ee aealthie t the Jackson Hole people |! der Ce cr of. a eee cee ies vere being killed and burned. Our party | bands of desperadoes that the West h Natrona Writes of| su cignt, strangers.” ne sala, “rn| Wer Deine Killed and burned. Our party |2onds Ot Meshes tie neal of thi na | | just bring my meat along with me.” pulled south and went into the Wind/ With headquarters in -the- ‘hole-in-the Curry and Gang| We lugged the deer into camp and) piled South jwall’ country, they rustled cattle and| venison was indeed a relief from friea|"*! ; vaa|Preyed upon the railroads and partici- | But the Hole-in-the-Wall country was a a | Jsage chickens. After chuck we talked | Patent invavacoketots ralntropberieal tite a “|a@ wonderful place then. Government! 4 as Z ; =b A. U. Mayfield, former she matters over and decided that it v serv men, with the aid of Jack Flagg | W@S Personally responsible for nine mur- | Natrona coitnty, ntributes jabout the proper thing to hold divine oy Gier daring men, finally cleaned| €rs, and it seemed that no prison was] teresting article on the Holedinthe | 8" nex aay, wnieh we In‘Jout the robbers’ roost ‘and cattle rust-|8tfong enough to hold him. He h Wall, made famous by the operations | “¥ cow nunchers said Ns ling gangs, and today about the only |Sentences aggregating 130 years hang of an outlaw gang in the ¢ {roan ‘ abe ye a 1 eet or 5 [wild thing up there is the wild-catte ing over his head, and it is said that of Wyoming, to the current lea rooca fventh our probabiemtneantsst| wi° Ming the trail for oll de.| the Union Pacific spent $500,000 in try- ene torteata me states) MontLie! lnaileioube nervice havea nelaninutie Bie ene aite lMNGestueltamas; oullaery anaud follows complete. lsrorn Gountrylautaldsien theaters Writi of this same country Jesse ae ow, Be ar Sol ies a ron ae | ‘ © 1 : porlGusentrecentlt jers ure concerned is quiet. ne BY A. U MAYFIELD services under Custer, Reno and other 7 TeitheWall that} Waters of Buffalo Creek flow silently - U MA Ww " Mai Michie description of the Hole-in-theWall tha t ee One summer, years ago, with} gin" enters. bright anali# very accurate and interesting. He]@0wn the valley as they did in year S| Sunday morning came, bright ana)is Very | he Girtain datbetn long past, and farther to the south, a party of scouts, I landed in} beautiful. True to the agreement of the |*#¥8 that as the curtain js be ‘i ‘Steamboat Rock’ and other towering Fort Casper Wyoming, “the|cowboy, seven men rode into camp| fer the last time upon w RS eat cIRaVGUT tlie isLaia eaten te d of the rail Th RBOUEL ‘They wore buckskin |ON€ of the most picturesque s s of |B tu y § sto, end of the railroad.’ €N WE joiaps, bie hate and colored shirts Thes|the last “Out West," where the outlaw lguard the last sleep of this, the once outfitted for a trip into the Big! wing trom their sadal Ml all too {Of the old school, frontier type, made| happy home and rendezvous of the ‘bad Horn Basin. Casper had about) their n off. pee last nd, you will find none of) ave, = yorWee tit | 200 inhabitants, wild and wooly. | “Well, Rev, I got the bunch here, but} these thi in any history, but in the! | V@ for the vet ea And, oh, the things I saw and heard, |1 had a hell of a time doing it,” folk Mlord/ oP) thisicouritry i theyg are sell eee eke vapcd ane errno nals In the wild and wooly town. {the wrangler. “I don’t think th told and re-told to each newcomer, WAT TCLs MOOSE COA eo To a tenderfoot was most absur |much on religion, but they wanted to| Picture a little valley, now z5 | For they sure did things up brown. | sce what a skypilot looks like.”]Shuggled close to the Big Horn Moun:! : But that is not what Tam going to| And imagine my surprise when H saw] tains, on the eastern slope. A long] tell about in this story. It’s the “Hole-| the grizzly.faced desper ry |ToW of telephone poles tell the advent in the 1 to write} who had stuck us up the night Bata »,| of civilization. It is some 600 feet lower | of. W led for the! right there with them, ‘They all carried| tan the surrounding plains which ter- northwest ert land|their artillery. minate abruptly in a wall of deep red wh id sagehens and jack r: pbits | We sang a few old fami “rim rock." | and antelope and deer were plentiful.|the skypilot offered up a f This is known as “The Red Wall” and We were nearly three weeks reac hing |and Rienwinrescnea ater & natural fortification for the the Basin—no_ ré except an occa-' prodigal son. I never hes va through which there are very | mionalncrcohaananiite sacihea in Tap lite eetOre ABE |few trails. ‘This beautiful little valley We crossed the Pow river nearj seemed as though God just lis watered by a little creek, known as Hella Hol find went on northwest intol down there in the wilds of Wyoming | But ‘alo Creek, which has its source in the Basin. We pitehed our tent on the /and talked to each one of us, Some of| We Mountains to the west and flows in We play ae Jacl GG ain a at | the punchers wept and the grizzly Kid) none ae aly direction ,emptying into area os par myself said | Curry ched his ‘head ‘and’ coughea| (it OG tiv var the famous Bar | Write 7 se I guess he think-| © meat. We ran across a The “Hole 2W pin” wa Hh eee te ke ne home and mother. When| The “Hole-in-the-Wall cabin" was Insurance . ne de ‘os were over, hey all came| Constructed of rough hewn logs with| we walked about |a dirt roof. It was situated in the Hoiowinwiand t bok hands with the parson, | s beats seh US Os || ered iivookine sina a ach one threw a handful of coing|(reme northwest corner of | Natrona ai grizzled looking man, on’ horseback, liatartes SS RECUR County, Wyo., some seventy-five miles dashed out from a clump of jack pines, | and leveled his rifle at us, with the de | mand: Bi i Sates memories regio iwwhere un helliare your going?! the salvation of God. eset tee OG Lae i My companion had been a Metho-| “Oh, that don't make a damned bit) 5! served its purpose in the dist preacher, and he replie of diffe! aid one of them, “ta 8 fat ay Sel is notre: Oe “We hadn't thought of taking up any !t home and give it to the heathens.| some! years ago, whildvasysteritt) particular loc in hell, sir. Where! We ain't had no preachin’ up here since 2 a Coun the business of} tion is your claim?” “Throw up demand, and ried | rifles, we obeyed. I think my hands touched the sky. “Now, spit it out! What do you want| and where are you going! demanded uking a little stroll, looking| for some fresh meat for supper," re. plied the edbl-headed ex-minister. “Are you sure you are not lying—you| I've a notion to let through your long-legged coyote? a little Basin sunshine astworks — jus for amusement!” | growled the desperado. | “Now, look aid the skypilot, | “what your ? Are you playing} us for tende: what do you want?| We are camping right down here on the r rand if you want to come down and chuck with us you are wel- come. If you'll please turn that pop-| the other way I would like to my hands down for a re 1, you game anyw: who you are,” said the bewhiskered hold-up, ‘so pull down your paws and you nd that milk-eater beside you there! gend make tracks back to y there—d'y hear me?" rd him. I can hear him When we got back to the old log photograph of which is shown! on ran across another mysterious str but he wore a smile and said “howdy, pards We] told him our experience with the bad man up the trail, and he shrugged his shoulder a bit and drolled out: “Well, you come damn near gettin’ it, I gues ut is Kid Curry, T reck on, who holds fort up in the Wall, and| he generally makes silent partners of | any neweor ught prowling around the Hole.” He then ined that we had tres-| passed dangerously near the entrance to the Hole-in-the-Wall, where Kid Curry | and his gang of cattle rustlers held out —that every stranger in the country | was looked upon with suspicion of being | @ government secret service man, who | was about a rattlesnake in the bunk of a tenderfoot. We told the cowboy where camped and invited him to visit us we were Jus No Car Owner Is Immune Automobile accidents are no respecters of locali- ties. They happen alike on crowded streets and lonely country roads. 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