Monday, March 24, 2008 - Las Vegas NV
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I'm camped tonight at Sam's Town RV Park on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas, NV for a few days.
Night camp
Site ? - Sam's Town Casino RV Park, Las Vegas NV
- I don't remember if Verizon cell and EVDO service are available here but I assume so.
- Find other references to Sam's Town Casino RV Park
- Go to the Sam's Town Casino RV Park website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."