Desert Soliloquy Second Edition

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>New Content in the Second Edition: </p><p><br></p><p>33 image plates have been added showing sites I visited as well as images from historical newspaper clippings.</p><p><br></p><p>A Second Epilogue has been added regarding my life twenty years later.</p><p><br></p><p>Minor corrections to Edition One have been corrected and noted.</p><p><br></p><p>Appendix II is dedicated to two-guns man Matt Burts (bootlegger; gun-for-hire; train robber).</p><p><br></p><p>Appendix III is dedicated to two-guns man Bob Hollomon.</p><p><br></p><p>Appendix IV for Avawatz adventurers to visit a spring I mentioned in Edition One.</p><p><br></p><p>Appendix V holds general history with sources of the area.</p><p><br></p><p>A Reading List which lists some of my research source books that are currently available.</p><p><br></p>