| Show IS AMERICAS DEATH TRAP cocopah desert Is small but la Is declared to be the most perilous spot in the entire world it Is not generally known that the hottest most arid desert in the world Is in the united states but such Is a fact the cocopah desert Is small but it Is the most dangerous of any known standing upon the mountain range to the east looking across the 60 miles of plain to another mountain range on the west with glimpses of two small lakes midway between it does not appear that it requires any extraordinary teat feat of danger or endurance to cross yet tet getting over this plain has caused the loss of many lives the sand of that desert to is so BO hot that in a few miles the shoes will be literally burned off the travelers feet beasts will be overcome before half bal the distance Is encompassed and the adventurous traveler dies in agony literally consumed with h heat eat from without and thirst within many have been known to attempt the journey and but few have been known to return these have gone no farther than the first lake and finding it salt water have beaten a retreat the nearest lake has been reached often enough to know that it ebbs and flows with the gulf of california and the water is the same hence it must be a part of that body bod v although separated from it by 60 or 70 miles of solid earth and a high range of mountains this range rang evras was probably at one time nn an island and the cocopah desert the bottom of the sea |
