Leanpub Header

Skip to main content

Last Chance Canyon

Stories of Bickel Camp

Sunny Skies blesses the Earth when she finds a shaman site. She offers tobacco and waits quietly for wisdom. She tells of the time when writer Carlos Castaneda took her for her first legal drink. She had just turned 21 and was his grad student at UCLA.

Minimum price

$7.99

$10.00

You pay

$10.00

Author earns

$8.00
$

...Or Buy With Credits!

You can get credits monthly with a Reader Membership
PDF
EPUB
WEB
106
Readers
330
Pages
66,503Words
About

About

About the Book

Last Chance Canyon is a collection of stories gathered and experienced by William Elmore Gann. Gann's reporting documents a 30-year period in the El Paso Wilderness. These adventuresome accounts are centered around Bickel Camp, a gold mining site at the base of Black Mountain in the eastern California desert. 

Share this book

Author

About the Author

William Elmore Gann

William Elmore Gann is a photographer, photojournalist, and teacher born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on a Mississippi River farm. He is a world traveler raised in Southern California, and has been writing and photographing for over fifty years. 

He was a Navy Photographer in Vietnam. Gann's by lines are found in Scholastic Magazine, American Folk, the Anaheim Bulletin, The Los Angeles Times, The Fullerton Observer, Sierra Magazine, and countless Web-based publications. He has published five Ebooks. During his working years, Gann traveled in a ’66 VW Kombi on expeditions around North America. This book is a collection of road stories.

 

Contents

Table of Contents

Bones of Panamint Dunes

The Man

The Place

The Teachings of Don Alex

Sunny Skies

Chasing Blue Scout

Outlaw John and the Camel Lady

Commando Lee

Bickel’s War

Bickel Basics

Yahtzee Nights

Burro Schmidt

Mountain Lady

Gold Miner’s Daughter

Bickel’s Cats

A Time Traveller’s Taste for Beef

Cadillac Cowboy

Rodeo Otto

Lonesome Drifter

Cowboy Poet

The Many Lives of John Bullock

Mojo Mark

The Star Gazer

The Hunters

The Bickel Camp Gang

Railroad Man

Female Warrior

The Prince and The Working Girl

Four Days on Black Mountain

The Lonely Hunter

Angel Light

Bickel’s Song

Smoking Jack The Piano Man

Bickel Boy

The Gold Miners

Danny “The Greek”

Seven Gram Larry O’Neil

Bonanza Gulch Caveman

Dirty Harry

Elder Care

Blacky’s Magic Feather

The Wives Club

The Cover Story

The Untied Thread

About the Author

Contributor

About the Contributors

Charlie Hattendorf

Charles Hattendorf is the president of the Friends of Last Chance Canyon.

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub