David Michael Rice

Desert Soliloquy Second Edition David Michael Rice

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.
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