Dead Warrior (2012)
“As a town just across the Colorado from the terminus of the Southern Pacific railroad, it had closer connections with the Coast than with the region of my recent experiences. As for myself, I met the needs of the moment by practicing a modest amount of law and writing for the Yuma Sentinel.
Then going through newspaper exchanges for something worth borrowing, I found a small item about prospectors trooping to a place called Dead Warrior, which was referred to as a settlement. The discovery made... me restless, but I stayed put until my interest was rearoused by an article in the Tucson Citizen. According to the excited author of this piece of journalism, the mines of the Dead Warrior region bade fair to cast the wealth found by Messrs. Cortez and Pizarro in the shade.
Western papers were full of such stories. Reporters were always playing up some trifling stampede as though it were a second California gold rush. Up to that point my reason was in the saddle; but my personal connection with the place in question put reason at a disadvantage.MoreLess
Then going through newspaper exchanges for something worth borrowing, I found a small item about prospectors trooping to a place called Dead Warrior, which was referred to as a settlement. The discovery made... me restless, but I stayed put until my interest was rearoused by an article in the Tucson Citizen. According to the excited author of this piece of journalism, the mines of the Dead Warrior region bade fair to cast the wealth found by Messrs. Cortez and Pizarro in the shade.
Western papers were full of such stories. Reporters were always playing up some trifling stampede as though it were a second California gold rush. Up to that point my reason was in the saddle; but my personal connection with the place in question put reason at a disadvantage.MoreLess
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