"The Devil's Highway" is a name that has a set out to illuminate one notion: Bad medicine. The first white man known to die in the desert heat here did it on January 18, 1541. Most assuredly, others had died before. As long as there have been people, there have been deaths in the western desert. When the Devil's Highway was a faint scratch of desert bighorn hoof mark's, and the first hunters ran along it, someone died. But the brown and red men who ran the paths left no record outside faded songs and rock paintings we still don't understand. Desert spirits of a dark and mysterious nature have always traveled these trails. From the beginning, the highway has always lacked grace. Those who worship desert gods known them to favor retribution over the tender dove of forgiveness.
The first white man known to die in the desert heat here did it on January 18, 1541.
Most assuredly, others had died before. As long as there have been people, there have been deaths in the western desert. When the Devil's Highway was a faint scratch of desert bighorn hoof mark's, and the first hunters ran along it, someone died. But the brown and red men who ran the paths left no record outside faded songs and rock paintings we still don't understand. Desert spirits of a dark and mysterious nature have always traveled these trails. From the beginning, the highway has always lacked grace. Those who worship desert gods known them to favor retribution over the tender dove of forgiveness.