- Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places
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William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures. ''Of the actors who made the history of the period, few remain. It was the writer’s good fortune that many of these men were his friends. It is the romance, the comedy, the often stark tragedy these men left along the trail which you will find in the pages that follow.'' (Preface and David Wales)
- Chapters
- Dedication, Preface, Author's Biography
- A Foretaste Of Things To Come
- What Caused Death Valley
- Aaron and Rosie Winters
- John Searles And His Lake Of Ooze
- But Where Was God?
- Death Valley Geology
- Indians Of The Area
- Desert Gold, Too Many Fractions
- Romance Strikes The Parson
- Greenwater -- Last Of The Boom Towns
- The Amargosa Country
- A Hovel That Ought To Be A Shrine
- Sex In Death Valley Country
- Shoshone Country. Resting Springs
- The Story Of Charles Brown
- Long Man, Short Man
- Shorty Frank Harris
- A Million Dollar Poker Game
- Death Valley Scotty
- Odd But Interesting Characters
- Roads. Cracker Box Signs
- Lost Mines. The Breyfogle And Others
- Panamint City. Genial Crooks
- Indian George. Legend Of The Panamint
- Ballarat. Ghost Town