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Desert Ghosts and a Colonel’s Desert Mystery
In a Kern County desert tale Colonel Whitehead narrates Buck the surveyor’s hunt for a mysterious flame seen near a dry lake. The eerie light spooks Buck, ties to a rival railroad scheme, and foreshadows the backers’ downfall with linked deaths. Buck vanishes after a late night alarm.
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Colonel Whitehead
Atlantic
Pacific
Shool
Kern County
Rogers
Mojavedon
Antioch
Fort Tejon
Buck
Sis
A. Snd P
Gorman's Station
Mount Frasier
Lancaster
Owens’ Lake
Buck Bo
Strick
Echonsa
Hazel
Almoat
Henry D. Minot
Washington
General Beale
Allan Manuel
Atchison
San Francisco