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Desert Soliloquy
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.
David lives and works on a ranch in Northern New Mexico. Previously he work in Information Technology for twelve years. He also delivered boats to Hawaii; the Cayman Islands; Pacific Northwest; Panama; Costa Rico; Florida Keys; and many harbors along the California Coastline.
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.
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.
David lives and works on a ranch in Northern New Mexico. Previously he work in Information Technology for twelve years. He also delivered boats to Hawaii; the Cayman Islands; Pacific Northwest; Panama; Costa Rico; Florida Keys; and many harbors along the California Coastline.
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.
406 pages, Paperback
First published October 18, 2018
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