When the West Was Young

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Frederick R. Bechdolt. When the West Was Young

When the West Was Young

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HOW DEATH VALLEY WAS NAMED

JOAQUIN MURIETA

TOMBSTONE

TOMBSTONE’S WILD OATS

THE SHOW-DOWN

THE PASSING OF JOHN RINGO

JOHN SLAUGHTER’S WAY

COCHISE

ONE AGAINST MANY

THE OVERLAND MAIL

BOOT-HILL

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Frederick R. Bechdolt

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Sometimes to this day the winds, moving the dunes of white sand in the valley’s northern arm––a task which they are always at from year’s end to year’s end––uncover the fragments of wagons, and prospectors come upon a tire or spoke or portion of a sun-dried axle. Then they know that they are at the place where the Jayhawkers abandoned their prairie-schooners.

They killed some of their oxen at this point and divided the meat––there was so little of it that although the men were now very weak two of them were able to carry the beef from an animal. Then they started out on foot across the sand dunes toward the Panamints. Most of them still believed that feed and water lay just beyond those heights.

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