Fagan's grave lies today in a high country pasture that seems never to have known the bite of a plow. Every once in awhile the present owners reset the brown headstone knocked down by the grazing cattle. They also watch over the grave in their continuing efforts to preserve it for future generations.
Their neighbors still point the way to the old grave at the foot of Point of Rocks. For those who know the story of the man who lies buried there the late spring snowstorms have taken on a special meaning. When the temperature drops and the wind howls and the snow swirls, then do the memories return - memories of a man named Micahel Fagan, of a 19th-century teamster who fought his own personal battle against the elements, who died in that struggle and who still lies buried beside West Kiowa Creek under a pile of rocks.