In the early fifties a party of emigrants on…
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In the early fifties a party of emigrants on
their way to the gold fields of California by the
southern route, via Gila river, crossed the Colo-
rado by ferry left by Graham in 1848 and
“struck out on the desert for the land of
promise.” The trail was well defined by aban-
doned wagons and the bones of horses, mules
and human beings. Struggling through the
yielding sand, the thermometer at 120 deg.,
wheels falling apart, animals dying from heat
and thirst, they on the second night out, halted
some ten miles from “Cooke’s Well,” with water
in their kegs exhausted.