A newspaperman who spent decades in the Death Valley country sets down what he saw and heard there: the borax find of Aaron and Rosie Winters, John Searles and his lake of ooze, Shoshone and Amargosa camps, and Greenwater, last of the boom towns. Geology, the area’s Indians and the tangled business of desert gold claims fill out the picture.
Yarn-spinning local history for anyone drawn to the Mojave and the people who tried to get rich in it. Download the free EPUB.