"This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body flo...












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"They caught up their horses and turned back. Nothing moved in that high wilderness save the wind. They did not speak. They were men of another time fo...
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