They came to drink the medicinal waters, fish, catch deer and game birds, and also gather acorns and pine nuts.

How well I remember my own visit to the Springs in the fall of 1913.

Watson and I had had three delightful days on the trail and in Hell Hole, and had come, without a trail, from Little Hell Hole up to Rubicon.

The quaking aspens were dropping their leaves, the tang of coming winter was in the air, mornings and evenings, yet the middle of the day was so warm that we drank deeply of the waters of the naturally carbonated springs.

No, this statement is scarcely one of fact.