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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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Sometimes a mirage tantalized the travelers as they plodded slowly through the sand. The ap­pearance of tall, minareted cities on the horizon above was only the heat-distorted image of distant mountains.
The interminable trail wound on. The bones of men and animals reminded the emigrants of what they would have preferred to forget (below): But the wall of the cordillera was in sight, and almost miraculously a stream had appeared in the desert which the emigrants called Salvation River or New River.
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