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.