Tweet The Nevada Pestilence Part 1 by Stu Venable   Personal Journal  of John Haunt  November 1872 Some time ago, I was told by the conductor, a tall gaunt man with graying beard and mustache, that we passed through the Utah territory. We spoke briefly of the parched nature of the landscape, the sparse signs of life being only the occasional scrub brush, tenaciously hanging on to the cracked clay earth, sapping the last bits of moisture to sustain its mean existence. That such events happened in this forsaken landscape has not escaped my notice. For it is in these strange alien wildernesses, the gaps between civilization and order, that mankind finds the true threats. After my brief conversation with the conductor, I closed my eyes to rest,. Fitful as my sleep would be with the constant jostling of the … Read entire article »