O'Neil's Grave

We are on the road, headed upstate for Thanksgiving with relatives, driving at night, so there was no photography today. While looking for an image to use yesterday to illustrate the point about some photographs being easy, I came across this. It is a 4x5 Polaroid Type 55 negative that I did about five years ago on the Camino del Diablo in Arizona. I was on a photographic field trip with Mark Klett, and we spent a week in the Cabeza Prieta which is in the southwest of the state. It surounds the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range, so that made for interesting moments with F-16's doing low level navigation, flying supersonically, both day and night! Anyhow, this is a famous grave, located on the trail that led from Mexico across the desert, where temperatures reached 120 degrees in the summer. The trail led to Yuma, Arizona, and a place to cross the Colorado River, in order to get to California and the gold rush. Conditions were so brutal, many people and animals died makking the journey. There is an amazing story about this grave - maybe I will tell you some day.