L Lee, Philander, owner of Resting Springs Ranch, 97 Lee, Cub, built first house at Shoshone, slays wife and son, 98 Lee, John D., established Lee’s Ferry; executed for massacre of emigrants at Mountain Meadows, 90 Lee, “Shoemaker,” 98 Legend of Swamper Ike, 173-174 Le Moyne, Jean, recipe for coffee, story of mine, death, 176-177 Lone Willow, murders at, 186 Longstreet, Jack, Ash Meadows bad man, 90 Lost Mines, all of Ch. XXII, 154-163 M Main, Eddie, 69, 78 McDermot, Archie, Strong Man, 185 McGarn, “Whitey Bill,” 70, 78, 138 Manly, William Lewis, 23, 157, 161 Manse Ranch, 155 Metbury Spring, first name of Shoshone, 72 Myers, Al, discoverer of Gold Field, 50 Modine, Dan, deputy sheriff, early owner of China Ranch, 63, 68, 84 Montgomery, Bob, owner of Montgomery Shoshone Mine, buys Skidoo discovery claim on sight, 54-56 Murray, Billy, saves John S. Cook Bank and Goldfield from “run,” 51 Murietta, Joaquin, 95 Myrick, Shady, exports gem stones, 186 N Nadeau, Remi, genius of transportation, 169 Nagle, Dave, 166 Naylor, George, sheriff, treasurer, supervisor of Inyo Co., 102 Nels, Dobe Charlie, at Bodie; at Shoshone, 74-75 Noble, Levi, geologist, 39-40-41 O Oakes, Sir Harry; in Alaska; at Greenwater; at Shoshone; makes strike in Canada; builds palace at Niagara Falls; knighted by King George V; slain by son-in-law, it is said—a renegade French count, in Bahamas, 105, 111-112 Oddie, Tasker, mining tycoon, 49-50, 60 Owens Valley, rape of, 147-148 P Pacific Coast Borax Co., organized, 28-29 Pahrump Ranch, 23 Panamint City, 166-167-168 Panamint Tom, story of, 23, 109 Perry, J. W. S., supt. Borax Co., designer of 20 mule team wagons, 31 Pietsch, Henry, shot Ballarat judge, 62 Plato, Joe, on the Comstock Lode, 76 Post Office Spring, early army post, 175 R Radcliffe Mine, 175 Raines, E. P., genial crook, 165-166 Randsburg, gold discovered at, 181 Rasor, Clarence, Borax Co. official, 151 Resting Springs, named by Mormons, 96 Rich, Charles, Mormon pioneer, 96 Rickard, sports promoter, 51 “Rocky Mountain” George, prospector, 76, 77 Rogers, John, Bennett-Arcane party, 21 Rosie, squaw, love life of, 88 Ryan, Joe, desert philosopher, 70-71, 73, 82 Rhyolite, discovery of gold, 54-55