Ruth Mary watched them with much interest, for travelers such as these seemed to be seldom came
as far up Bear River valley as the Tullys' cattle range. The visitors who came to them were mostly
cowboys looking up stray cattle, or miners on their way to the "Banner district," or packers with
mule trains going over the mountains, to return in three weeks, or three months, as their journey
prospered. Fishermen and hunters came up into the hills in the season of trout and deer, but they
came as a rule on horseback, and at a distance were hardly to be distin-guished from the cowboys
and the miners.