She found no ranch, no cabin, not even a corral in Bear Canyon.

Sprague said there was only one canyon by that name.

Daggs had assured her of the exact location on his place, and so had her father.

Had they lied?
Were they mistaken in the canyon?
There were many canyons, all heading up near the Rim, all running and widening down for miles through the wooded mountain, and vastly different from the deep, short, yellow-walled gorges that cut into the Rim from the Basin side.

Ellen investigated the canyons within six or eight miles of her home, both to east and to west.