Professor Dix Van Dyke
Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town (Creating the North American Landscape)
When twenty-two-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with barrooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives, and shootouts at the Bucket of Blood saloon. Dix, a ranch-boy with no formal education but wh...
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