| Author |
Caruthers, William |
| Title |
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places
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| Contents |
A foretaste of things to come -- What caused Death Valley? -- Aaron and Rosie Winters -- John Searles and his lake of ooze -- But where was God? -- Death Valley geology -- Indians of the area -- Desert gold; too many fractions -- Romance strikes the parson -- Greenwater, last of the boom towns -- The Amargosa country -- A hovel that ought to be a shrine -- Sex in Death Valley country -- Shoshone country; Resting Springs -- The story of Charles Brown -- Long man, short man -- Shorty Frank Harris -- A million dollar poker game -- Death Valley Scotty -- Odd but intersting characters -- Roads, cracker box signs -- Lost mines, the Breyfogle and others -- Panamint City, genial crooks -- Indian George, legend of the Panamint -- Ballarat, ghost town.
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| Credits |
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
F850.5: United States local history: Pacific States
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| Subject |
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
51899 |
| Release Date |
Apr 30, 2016 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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