There were droves of horses in the woods, and some of them wild as deer.

According to her long-established understanding, her father and her uncles were keen on horse trading and buying.
Then the many trails leading away from the Jorth ranch--these grew to have a fascination for Ellen; and the time came when she rode out on them to see for herself where they led.

The sheep ranch of Daggs, supposed to be only a few miles across the ridges, down in Bear Canyon, never materialized at all for Ellen.

This circumstance so interested her that she went up to see her friend Sprague and got him to direct her to Bear Canyon, so that she would be sure not to miss it.

And she rode from the narrow, maple-thicketed head of it near the Rim down all its length.