Mojave Crossing (1964)
“Although a writer of fiction is under no compulsion to be as exact as I have chosen to be as to locale, I regard each of my novels as, in a sense, historical. Each water hole or spring, each valley, canyon, creek or mountain, each store, gambling house, or hotel exists now or did exist at the time.
The tanks visited by Sackett after leaving Dorinda are the White Tanks, and the well he next visited was Lost Horse Well, both of which are now within the limits of Joshua National Monument. The Hidd...en Valley where Sackett was loaned a horse is now visited by thousands of tourists, and they enter by crawling, as he did. The Button brothers actually used the valley to hide stolen horses (nobody yet knows how the horses were taken in or out), and they were killed, sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
The house of Greek George was located near the intersection of Fountain Avenue and King's Road, only a block off the famous Sunset Strip in what is now Hollywood.
The local round-ups, called rodeos in California, were held in an area roughly between La Cienaga and Robertson streets, give or take a few blocks.MoreLess
The tanks visited by Sackett after leaving Dorinda are the White Tanks, and the well he next visited was Lost Horse Well, both of which are now within the limits of Joshua National Monument. The Hidd...en Valley where Sackett was loaned a horse is now visited by thousands of tourists, and they enter by crawling, as he did. The Button brothers actually used the valley to hide stolen horses (nobody yet knows how the horses were taken in or out), and they were killed, sometime later, in a gun battle in San Bernardino.
The house of Greek George was located near the intersection of Fountain Avenue and King's Road, only a block off the famous Sunset Strip in what is now Hollywood.
The local round-ups, called rodeos in California, were held in an area roughly between La Cienaga and Robertson streets, give or take a few blocks.MoreLess
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Saying it was "mighty old" is a misleading comment to make. Obviously Old Mandarin got it by piracy. But that could havebeen no farther back than about 30-40 yeas ago. The comment gives the air of old Spanish galleons which it totally false, and just some of L'amour's schtik. To read his books casually is O.K. but to read with a critical eye, just comes naturally to me.; being the logical person I am. Even a novel must make some sense and be based on known facts, or else it is "science fiction.'Write Review:
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