Loafing Along Death Valley Trails
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Caruthers William Alexander. Loafing Along Death Valley Trails
DEDICATION
THIS BOOK
Chapter I. A Foretaste of Things to Come
Chapter II. What Caused Death Valley?
Chapter III. Aaron and Rosie Winters
Chapter IV. John Searles and His Lake of Ooze
Chapter V. But Where Was God?
Chapter VI. Death Valley Geology
Chapter VII. Indians of the Area
Chapter VIII. Desert Gold. Too Many Fractions
Chapter IX. Romance Strikes the Parson
Chapter X. Greenwater – Last of the Boom Towns
Chapter XI. The Amargosa Country
Chapter XII. A Hovel That Ought To Be a Shrine
Chapter XIII. Sex in Death Valley Country
Chapter XIV. Shoshone Country. Resting Springs
Chapter XV. The Story of Charles Brown
Chapter XVI. Long Man, Short Man
Chapter XVII. Shorty Frank Harris
Chapter XVIII. A Million Dollar Poker Game
Chapter XIX. Death Valley Scotty
Chapter XX. Odd But Interesting Characters
Chapter XXI. Roads. Cracker Box Signs
Chapter XXII. Lost Mines. The Breyfogle and Others
Chapter XXIII. Panamint City. Genial Crooks
Chapter XXIV. Indian George. Legend of the Panamint
Chapter XXV. Ballarat. Ghost Town
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This book is a personal narrative of people and places in Panamint Valley, the Amargosa Desert, and the Big Sink at the bottom of America. Most of the places which excited a gold-crazed world in the early part of the century are now no more, or are going back to sage. Of the actors who made the history of the period, few remain.
It was the writer’s good fortune that many of these men were his friends. Some were or would become tycoons of mining or industry. Some would lucklessly follow jackasses all their lives, to find no gold but perhaps a finer treasure – a rainbow in the sky that would never fade.
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“This country’s hard on the throat,” he explained.
Blackie’s kingdom seemed to have extended from the morning star to the setting sun. He had been in the Yukon, in New Zealand, South Africa, and the Argentine. Gold, hemp, sugar, and ships had tossed fortunes at him which were promptly lost or spent.
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