According to legend, an Indian princess fell in love with a captured brave and was allowed to marry him and return with him to his people on the promise that she would not look back. Happy and forgetting her promise, she laughingly looked back and was turned to stone, becoming the upright Hee-Hee laughing stone. Passing Indians made wishes there and hung trinkets and garments on the stone, which never failed them. During a plague, an angel appeared over Bonaparte from the southern skies and alighted on the Hee-Hee Stone, healing the sick. The Hee-Hee Stone was and still is an Indian belief, and it was supposedly dynamited to pieces by white prospectors under the influence of liquor the night after Labor Day, 1905.