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Death Valley in ’49

CHAPTER XIV
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I had filed in after Hunt, and they tried to convince me that I was very wrong.

A Mr.Norton of Adrian, Mich., promised Mrs.Erkson a horse to ride if she would go, and so I left Hunt and turned in on the other road, the hindmost wagon.

This is going back a little with the history and bringing it up to Mt.Misery.On my way back from Mt.

Misery I climbed up on a big rock and inscribed the date--Nov.

10, 1849.
In our journey we came to what is called 'The rim of the Basin,' and traveled along on that a distance till we came to the Santa Clara River and saw where the Indians had raised corn and melons.


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