deducer
Bronze Member
- Jan 7, 2014
- 2,281
- 4,360
- Primary Interest:
- Other
In my copy of Gentry's The Killer Mountains, there's a discussion of Adolph Ruth's 1931 trip into the Superstition Mountains on page 98 (Chapter 5). Gentry states that two prospectors, George Lusk and John Harris, packed Ruth from the Barkley ranch into the mountains. However, there's an asterisk by the names, and a footnote reads "For reasons which will become obvious, aliases have been used here".
I've always taken that to mean that the names Lusk and Harris were just made up by Gentry as pseudonyms for Leroy Purnell and Jack Keenan.
Thank you for that tidbit, I wasn't aware of that.
I wonder who has Glen Magill's full collection? Any private investigator worth their salt would keep extensive, detailed notes. Magill's must be stored somewhere or with someone. His family perhaps?