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Desert Soliloquy Second Edition

Desert Soliloquy Second Edition - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:David Michael RicePublish date:2022-03-15Pages:438
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cactus Thorn PublishingISBN-13:9781088023495ISBN-10:1088023495UPC:9781088023495Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC5MJ0HN3C

After living alone in a cave for twenty-nine months in the desolate Avawatz Mountain Range, David shares with readers hysterically funny yarns about how he dealt with tarantulas, excessively annoying tourists, traveling preachers, boot-stealing desert varmints, foul water, a hungry owl forty feet tall, irate fathers, and sheriff deputies in hot pursuit of him. The memoir is written with a unique voice well-suited for story-telling, and includes original research of the USA Southwest and the Mojave Desert.


The history within this memoir includes the trials and travails of the "two-gun fighters" Robert Hollimon and Matt Burts; assorted cow detectives and range riders; the ghost of an upset payroll robber, severed Paiute heads; train robbers; bootleggers; the Death Valley Lee Brothers, and more.


New Content in the Second Edition:


33 image plates have been added showing sites I visited, as well as images from historical newspaper clippings.


A Second Epilogue has been added regarding my life twenty years later.


Minor corrections to Edition One have been corrected, and noted.


Appendix II is dedicated to "two-guns man" Matt Burts (bootlegger; gun-for-hire; train robber).


Appendix III is dedicated to "two-guns man" Bob Hollomon.


Appendix IV for Avawatz adventurers to visit a spring I mentioned in Edition One.


Appendix V holds general history with sources of the area.


A Reading List, which lists some of my research source books that are currently available.



Language:EnglishPublisher:Cactus Thorn PublishingISBN-13:9781088023495ISBN-10:1088023495UPC:9781088023495Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC5MJ0HN3C
Publisher: Cactus Thorn Publishing

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