Monday, January 4, 2010 - Prescott AZ
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Dawn at the Corral, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM, December 24, 2009
RV is on fire! RV is on fire!
Those words, yelled with urgency, will blow you right out of the sack! They'll make you a tad grumpy too, once the adrenaline wears off and the kid who yelled them is long gone....
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Prescott AZ
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1417, 3050 North Hwy 69, Prescott, AZ 86301 - (928) 445-1113
- Nice level parking lot
- Verizon cell phone service - excellent
- Verizon EVDO service - excellent
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.