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46 County, and named it Stone Idol Creek, because they were told that a few miles back from the Missouri there were two stones resembling human figures and a third which looked like a dog, and that these stones were worshiped by the Rees. The Indians told this legend of these rocks: "A young man was deeply in love with a girl whose parents refused their consent to the marriage. The youth went out on the prairie to mourn over his hard fate. A sympathy of feeling led the lady to the same spot, and the faithful dog would not cease to follow his master. After wandering together and having nothing to live on but grapes they were at last changed into stone, which beginning at their