What's Wrong with Ewe?

[Walter]

I've been fooling around with writing some more. Of course I like mixing my photos in too.

A couple of my latest favorites

What's Wrong with Ewe? (http://aeve.com/gazette/ewe.html)

Shoshone Bob and the Magic Elixir (http://aeve.com/gazette/elixir.html)

Although the stories aren't original, I read them a few years ago and tell them from memory in my own words.

[Antarctican]

Heehee, I like the Magic Elixir story! :toast:

[Walter]

Heehee, I like the Magic Elixir story! :toast:

Me too. It was chosen to be printed in our desert museum newsletter next month.

The 'Ewe' story didn't pass with the editor who is an historian. Apparently if he's read it in a book, it's not folklore, just inaccurate.

I guess I have to work with junk like; It's so windy here I seen a chicken lay the same egg twice. The other night was so windy it blew the light from my headlights under my truck and I had to backup to see where I was going. Etc.

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[icassell]

I guess I have to work with junk like; It's so windy here I seen a chicken lay the same egg twice. The other night was so windy it blew the light from my headlights under my truck and I had to backup to see where I was going. Etc.

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Reminds me of Paul Bunyan :)

I like your stories.

[Walter]

Reminds me of Paul Bunyan :)

I like your stories.

Thanks Ian.

I recieved an email this morning from my historian friend asking about a prospector that found some gold, but kept the location hidden from his partners.

He couldn't keep it secret for long and ended up with more partners than he started with going to look- but they couldn't relocate it. One guy decided to head off on his own and found a rich strike. But on his way back was attacked and hit in the head with a rock. He couldn't remember who he was let alone where the gold was (the Indians who rescued him gave his giant nugget back to him as they had no use for it). This story of lost gold led countless others to look. Their stories led to even more folks to look, and so on, and so on...

There's some interesting elements in the whole thing, the reason the 'hold-out' went looking in the first place (to find a lost mine), then especially the guy with the 'bent head', and that most of the mining in the desert from 1855 to somewhere in the 1880s generated from the original "lost mine."

I'm not sure if he wants me to help research or write something, but I'm sure would like to make it as crazy as it sounds to me. No sense in letting 'facts' screw up a story with that kind of potential.

Partial List of Elements:
Lost people
Lost gold
Greed
Bent/broken Heads
Double-crossing & betrayal
Stupid stuff galore
Burros
& an Anvil

Hm. Maybe I should play it straight.

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[jbylake]

Keep those Mojave posts coming. I've trounced over about every square inch of it, while in the military. I loved it, not so much as a military experience, but just the time I spent exploring it.

Thanks,
J.:big grin: