Thanks, Jeff, after a quarter of a century, my memory of the geography of the high desert is a bit fuzzy (to say the least). Mike IBSSG > [Original Message] > From: <ScismGenie@aol.com> > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/1/2002 7:45:54 PM > Subject: Re: [BSChat] Spade Cooley Murder case > > In a message dated 5/1/2002 2:29:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > grinch42@mindspring.com writes: > > > > Jeff, it's a very interesting (altho grizzly) story, but there are some > > things I don't understand, having spent many years in CA. Tehachapi is in > > Kern Co, and Mojave is in Riverside Co. While I think I remember that > > there's a highway from Four Corners that goes to Tehachapi, wouldn't it > > have been more logical to take her to Antelope Valley to the hosp? > > > > Mojave is in Kern County. Tehachapi is about 20 miles from where the mine IS > ( close to my brother's in-laws house) about 15 miles west of Mojave. > > Lancaster (where Antelope Valley Hospital was built in the late 1960s), is > about 40 miles, the only "close full hospital was in China Lake Naval > Weapons center, which is a military base. The only full hospital available > to the south would have been Palmdale General. almost 60 miles away. > > Highway 395 crosses Highway 58 at Kramer's Junction (four corners) which is > thirty miles EAST of Mojave. (on the other side of BORON). > > So Tehachapi was closest, even though it was way too late. > > Some websites state that she was supposedly having an affair with Roy > Rogers, but he was in Apple Valley, 45 miles further east, and only later > moved to Tehachapi from Apple Valley. > > There is a WHOLE lot of open desert out there.( for about 400 miles north to > Reno, and 100 miles east to Las Vegas) to drop of a body with little hope of > it being found. > > The Antelope Valley is filling fast, but from the Kern County line (Rosamond) > north, it is EMPTY. > > > Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) > ~~ > Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site > Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site > manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: > B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n > d i c o t t, > S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. > Nv.) > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Shuler Michael --- grinch42@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.