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The Nomads Of The Badlands: Continuing the Wilhelm's Adventures Prospecting the Mojave Deserts of Arizona, Nevada, and California in 1915
Hardcover
Series: The Wilhelms' Chronicles
Biographies GeneralTechnology & EngineeringRegional: West
Publisher: Wesley K Wilhelm
Published: Aug 12 2024
Pages: 516
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With Nomads Of The Badlands: Walt continues the autobiographical family story he started in Last Rig To Battle Mountain. 'Nomads' is filled with tales and details vital to a meaningful understanding of the people, places and times that were the Mohave and Mojave Deserts of the Nineteen-teens. Hunting gold in the desert across today's 1,542,776 acre Mojave National Preserve. 'Nomads' is High Grade Ore, the very Jewelry Rock they hunted.
In August of 1915 in the Hassayampa mining district by Prescott, AZ Sherman and Dora Wilhelm with seven children, in two 1912 era cars left the Ruth Mine. They prospected for gold across the southern deserts of AZ, NV, and CA. Rarely sleeping under a roof, they drove through desolate desert country with water holes fifty miles apart. Crossing the deserts with no gas stations, or mechanics they were one of the first to drive cars across the Mojave Badlands. They made their own roads when they weren't driving in freight wagon-wheel ruts the cars wheel tracks didn't fit in. Yielding right of way to wagons was treacherous as they pulled off the roads into the sand, frequently getting stuck.
They prospected Siegelman, Goldroad, Oatman, Kingman and Topock, Arizona driving the Old National Trails Road route, forefather of The Mother Road, U.S. Route 66. They crossed the Colorado on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Co. Red Rock Canyon train bridge. They camped, hunted, swam, and prospected along the Colorado now under Lake Mojave. They found gold in an abandoned boat and dugout cave along the Colorado. They had school & church with family teachers. They prospected Searchlight, Nelson, 4th of July Pass, El Dorado Canyon, and Cottonwood, Nevada before graded roads and Colorado dams.
They met colorful desert characters: prospectors, miners, & mining engineers; tenderfoots', bootleggers, & rustlers; cooks, caretakers, & cowboys; blacksmiths, bartenders, & sporting girls. Creating new friendships while rekindling old ones, Walt vividly describes how the family lived, hunted gold, and searched for the elusive placer miner Arizona. Wintering in a miners shack near the headquarters of the Rock Springs Land & Cattle Co. in Barnwell, CA they prospected the Mojave National Preserve from Hole-in-the-Wall & Government Holes to Ivanpah as well as from Nipton & Goodsprings to Las Vegas staying close to the lifelines of the desert, the Searchlight, Nevada Southern, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, and the San Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake which Hazel, Eva and Juanita rode to Long Beach for Christmas with relatives.
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