Campfires on Desert and Lava

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Campfires on Desert and Lava

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I tried to post this last night but apparently it didn't stick.
Anyway, I found the full online text of this 1908 desert classic by William T. Hornaday by accident. I haven't read it myself yet, but thought other reader types here might enjoy it as well.
I believe it's about a bighorn sheep hunting expedition in S. Arizona and the Pinacate region of Mexico.

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Thanks Yuccahead! I've always thought I'd like to know more about the Pinacate region in Mexico as it's really not far from here (Yuma). I'll have to take a look at the book.

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I've seen this book listed as a source for other books about Desert Bighorn, probably as an historical record.
Hornaday was quite the big game hunter and the Boy Scouts, I think, have an award or something in his name.
The Cabeza Prieta area and the Pinacate were really unknown and unmapped areas 100 yrs ago as he writes in the introduction. I just got started with it and hope to get a couple of chapters read each week.
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