Copied from Early Farr West Residents: Their Biographies and Their Homes, compiled by Brian L. Taylor, 2008. Pg 369.

[From The Families of Joseph Allen Taylor and His Wives Mary Lake and Sarah Lake]

About 1859 he [Joseph Allen, Sr] took a herd of cattle to care for on shares. They milked about forty head in summer and took them to Salt Creek [West Warren] in winter. The winter that Joseph Allen was eleven and Andrew was nine, they stayed with the cattle, living in a dugout and their only clothes being straw hats, shoes and canvas suits. One night some Indians came into the dugout, motioned for the boys to go to bed, that they wouldn’t harm them, and then they ate all of the boys’ food. Of course the boys didn’t sleep. Next morning Joseph Allen sent Andrew home to tell his father what had happened, while he stayed with the cattle. Andrew walked the ten or fifteen miles through the snow, arriving late in the afternoon. His stepmother had no food ready, so he had to wait until the next day before his father could take fresh provisions to his brother.