Excerpts from:
On the Frontier
By J. S. CAMPIONReminiscences of Wild Sports, Personal Adventures, and Strange Scenes.
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CHAPTER XXIV
From Cajon Pass to Soda Lake
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A Desert View
Salt Grass
The Caves
A Desert Valley
An Improbable Tradition
Soda Lake
A Medicinal Spring
Beelzebubs
Snipe
CHAPTER XXV
From Soda Lake to the Colorado River
The travels and unexaggerated observations of an Englishman, writing for a French magazine about his adventures in America, and most specifically, his journey across the Mojave Desert in 1878.