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"It got its name before my time in the days when outlaws hid

here. A hunted man came to Lost Canon, a murderer wanted by the

law for more crimes than one. He was well treated by the

settlers. They gave him shelter and work. He was safe, and he

knew it. But he tried to make his peace with the law outside by

breaking the law of the valley. He knew that two men were lying

hid in a pocket gulch, opening from the valley--men who were

wanted for train robbery. He wrote to the company offering to

betray these men if they would pay him the reward and see that he

was not punished for his crimes.