



| Across the Fence: Mud Springs revisited | |
| July 12, 2012 M. Timothy Nolting | |
![]() It was the Fourth of July and according to the outside temperature display on the dashboard of the car it was 101 degrees and we were parked in a rare bit of shade on the wide open, parched prairie southeast of Courthouse and Jail rock. We were near the mouth of a long, shallow canyon that lies between the Lodgepole Creek and the North Platte River valleys at a place called Mud Springs. I first heard of Mud Springs from my mother-i... (The rest of this story is available to Subscribers only. Please subscribe or login here if you are already a subscriber) |