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Journal of Western Travel
by John McTurk Gibson
edited by Weldon Hoppe
August 29th, 1859 -- Twelve miles east of last nights camp, there is a station where two roads diverge. We took what is called the river road said to be 27 miles. The other crossed a desert and is said to be only 20 miles. At the junction of the roads again we find a station, passed it about three miles and unhitched in good feed. The whole country is barren in the extreme, and the mountains appear as if they had been literally burnt and vomited up by some volcanic agency at some former period of the earth's history.Powell
Travelled 15 miles. We find mail stations every 15 or 20 miles. They all [have] something to sell.