What of Shoshone? It remains with changes of course. The shanties hauled from Greenwater have been hauled somewhere else. No longer do I step from my car as I have so often and call to those on the bench. “Move over, fellows” and hear their familiar greeting: “Where the hell you been?”
Instead, I drive to an air conditioned cabin and stroll back to the former site of the bench, so long the social center. There I see a sign over a door which reads, “Crowbar” and I enter a dreamy cavern with dimmed, rosy lights, hear the music of ice against glass and refuse to believe the startling sight of an honest-to-goodness old timer tending bar in a clean white shirt.
Likewise I balk at the white lines I walk between as I cross the asphalt road to the store.
But above Shoshone the same blue skies stretch without end over a world apart, and under them are the same uncrowded trails; the same far horizons for the vagabond’s foot and the peace “which passeth all understanding.”
INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] Q [R] [S] [T] U [V] [W] X [Y] Z
A Amargosa River, [96] American Potash and Chemical Co., [33] Archilette Spring, [95] Augerreberry, Pete, [58]
B Ballarat, [175] Ballarat Mines, production figures, [176] Beatty, Monte, [53], [77] Benson, Myra, [68], [133]-134-135 Benson, Jack, [133]-134-135 Bennett, Bellerin’ Teck, [23] Bennett, Charles, freighter, [31] Bennett’s Well, [21] Black Mountain, story of, [20], [60]-61 Bodie, toughest of the Gold Towns, [74] Borax, discovery of, [26] Bradbury Well, [76] Bowers, Sandy, gets a fortune for a board bill, [74] Brannan, Sam, Mormon leader, [95] Brandt, “Arkansas” Ben, [71], [83], [138] Breyfogle, Jacob; stories of, [154] Brown, Charles, Deputy Sheriff at Greenwater; store at Shoshone; road builder, supervisor, superintendent of Lila C. Mine at Dale; elected to senate; [Chap. XV], [102] Brown (nee Fairbanks) Stella, [69], [71], [104]-105, [107], [116], [135] Brougher Wils, at Tonopah, [49] Bruce, Jimmy, private graveyard, [168] Bullfrog Mine, discovered, [53]-54-55 Butler, James, discoverer of Tonopah silver, [48]-49-50, [59] Bulette, Julia, famed madam of Virginia City, [74]
C Cahill, Washington, Borax Co. official, [35]-36 Calico Mountains, [15] Calico, stories of, [15], [16] Carrillo, Jose Antonio, [97] Carson, Kit, guide and scout in Shoshone country, [20], [93]-94-95 Casey, John “Cranky,” noted desert character, [136], [137]-138 Cave Spring, [134] Cazaurang, Jean, wealthy miser, death of, [100]-101 China Ranch, stories of, [80], [94] Clark, W. A., [60] Clark, “Patsy,” [60] Coleman, W. T., [27]-28, [30] Comstock, “Pancake,” famous lode named for; buys a woman; suicide, [48], [74] Corcoran, “Wild Bill,” famous prospector; death of, [58], [177] Counterfeit gold piece, [179]-180 Cross, Ed, partner and co-discoverer of Bullfrog Mine, [53]
D Dayton, James, superintendent Furnace Creek Ranch, death of, [35]-36, [122] Dante’s View, [151] Davis, Buford, buys Noonday Mine; death of, [158] Death Valley, cause of; history of, geology, temperatures; first settlers, [19] Decker, Judge, convivial Ballarat Justice of Peace, murdered, [62] Delameter, John, early freighter, [156] Diamond Tooth Lil, glamorous madam, [62]-63 Dooley, William, bad man, [181]-182-183 Driscoll, Dan, partner of Shorty Harris, [91], [120] Dublin Gulch, [69] Dumont, Eleanor, (Madame Moustache), charmer of the Forty Niners, [74]