Chuckawalla Bill
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Chuckawalla Bill was a Spanish-American War veteran, a prospector, and vagabond.
Chuckawalla Bill's real name was William Simmons.
Colin Fletcher came across a cave in Nevada which Bill had been living in and abandonded. The Man from the Cave was a 1981 book written by Fletcher, which detailed how, after finding a trunk and belongings abandoned by someone, Fletcher spent years putting together the life story of "Trunkman".
Colin Fletcher's quote about Chuckawalla Bill : "We both valued solitude and silence and square, smoothed-off granite boulders."[1]
[edit] References
- Colin Fletcher's NYTimes OBIT page [1]
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