Lore and Legend

(Author’s note: Material for this article, as well as for the mineral hot springs and Hobo Pool historic program later this month, was compiled from the files of “The Saratoga Sun”, “Platte Valley Lyre”, “Carbon County Journal” and “Rawlins Daily Times”, plus the collections and writings of Dad & Bob Martin, Elva Evans, Dick Perue, Gay Day Alcorn Clark, Candy Moulton and other area authors and historians).

A natural phenomena known by many monikers such as “Big Medicine”, “Mineral Hot Springs”, “Healing Waters”, “Magic Waters”, “Medicinal Water” or “Hobo Pool” is undoubtedly responsible for th...