The Medicine Tree was a freak of nature, a double cottonwood tree with a common, entwined branch growing about ten feet above ground level. To the natives it not only symbolized a campground, which combined a pleasant clearing on a tree-lined river bank, adjacent to a convenient fording spot across the Highwood, plentiful grazing, firewood, and berries; it also was said to have supernatural powers and offerings of food, tobacco and arrowheads frequently were made beneath its branches. Eventually the aging Medicine Tree was felled by a windstorm, and lay rotting for some time on the premises of the Round Top T Ranch. A number of interested citizens, together with the High River Rotary Club, salvaged a part of the old landmark and it was placed on an arch in George Lane Memorial Park in High River. It has become the official copyrighted symbol of the Town of High River and its residents, and numerous souvenirs using the emblem have traveled around the world, indicative of the "good medicine" of friendship, pleasant surrounding and the blessings of a good land... High River, Medicine Tree Country."
- Wolves of the Wild
N 50° 34.829'
W 113° 52.320'
- Fly Boys
N 50° 34.811'
W 113° 52.420'
- Cattle Drive
N 50° 34.765'
W 113° 52.436'
- Threshing
N 50° 34.750'
W 113° 52.427'
- The Chucks
N 50° 34.730'
W 113° 52.354'
- "Old Womans Buffalo Jump"
N 50° 34.712'
W 113° 52.379'
- "Fort Spitzee" Trading
N 50° 34.768'
W 113° 52.387'
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