Cyrena Dustin Merrill – Part VI
Continued from Part V Salt Lake Philemon’s mother hearing that we were coming started out to meet us but got on the wrong road, missed us, and had to walk back a long distance — we were about two weeks...
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Tips for Stagecoach Travelers
from the Omaha Herald, 1877 The best seat inside a stage is the one next to the driver. Even if you have a tendency to seasickness when riding backwards — you’ll get over it and will get less jolts and...
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Life!
11-year-old Kass, a desert girl born and bred, looks into a natural stream of water (Cajon Creek) for the first time in her life. She was amazed that there was so much life going on right in front of...
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Dolomite Ghost Town
Downtown Dolomite I suppose the good news is, is that I got this photo of a shack in the little ghost town of Dolomite. I suppose the bad news is that I shot it in 2001 with a low resolution camera....
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Life in Harmony with Nature
Olive Oatman Indians living in harmony with nature is an idealization to say the least. Life was hard and often got harder as evidenced by Olive Oatman’s observations of the Mojave Indians in the...
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Flying Saucers Reported Over Mojave Desert
The latest flying saucer report comes from Silver Lake airport near Baker. Two aircraft communicators stationed at Silver Lake report they watched a brilliantly-glowing object speed through the desert...
View ArticleIndian Queho
Indian Queho hated white men. It has been said he killed up to 35 of them. I believe there are only about 17 murders he has been tied to. These were all brutal, violent killings. Queho killed using...
View ArticleIndian Queho – Part II
Queho had killed before. He killed a man named Bismarck in Las Vegas. Bismarck was another Indian, so it didn’t matter. I have heard Queho killed his half-brother, Avote. Avote was a killer in his...
View ArticleTrapper Andrew Sublette and Salt Springs History
Gold was discovered on December 1, 1849, by Mormons who were led by Jefferson Hunt to take gold seekers and others to southern California over the Old Spanish Trail. Most wagons left Hunt in southern...
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The Story of this Picnic Table
Rattlesnake Flats Way in back of a mining claim in a crack near a knob on a knoll up near Rattlesnake Flats there is some thick brush grown around a wobbly old picnic table. Roy Rogers My friend tells...
View ArticleTeam Work
Back before Route 66 made crossing the desert easy, three friends wanted to cross the Mojave. Of the three buddies there was a “smart dude,” a “not so smart dude,” and a “not smart at all dude.”...
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An Orchestral Landscape
An Orchestral Landscape “The point of view is born of the desert herself. When you are there, face to face with the earth and the stars and time day after day, you cannot help feeling that your role,...
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Coyote Holes
Note on: Freeman Stage Station (Coyote Holes). Robber’s Roost near Freeman Station Freeman Station was established by the ex-stage driver Freeman S. Raymond in 1872. On the last day of February, 1874,...
View ArticleWhen the Cavalry Saves the Day
“Two men were in charge of a station at Egan Canyon in Nevada. One morning a band of Indians captured them, after a battle. The chief chose to make the prisoners feed his braves before murdering them,...
View ArticleLittle Ellen Baley – Lost in the Desert Night
During this phase of the journey the wagon train was doing much of its traveling at night, owing to the great daytime heat of the desert and the long distances between water holes. At regular intervals...
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A Story about Gold
My friend’s mother used to tell me these stories about the desert. I loved them–nothing like sitting there listening to her–so interesting. One story she told me was about a gentleman who found some...
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Cedar Springs – August 1964
A field trip report by Gladys Steorts Bridge at Deep Creek The day was hot. There were only five of us who showed up for the trip. We met at Carl Cambridge’s Museum on Bear Valley Road in Apple Valley...
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A Bottle Full of Teeth
John Searles John W Searles‘ bottle full of his own teeth was a reminder of one of the most remarkable encounters with the grizzly bear ever related in San Bernardino County. While hunting deer in...
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1864 Travel Tip – Hold Hostages
From the diary of Sarah J. Rousseau , 1864: Regarding traveling with Indians across the Mojave Sunday, November 6 … The lava that has been thrown out looks like cinders. The mountains, some of them...
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The American Desert
BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE I went alone into the desert with only a fox terrier and a buckskin pony, for company. There was no one on the edge who knew about the interior and those that talked as though they...
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