![]() ![]() The Apaches by now realized that I was alone and quickly began to follow. I reached down and pulled him up on the horse by his belt. I forced my horse into the camp and toward Powell. I did not even think about what to do, I just acted. Several hundred Apache Indians were in the center of the camp. I was sure they wanted to capture Powell. I soon found the trail left by the three riders following Powell. I had no difficulty following Powell’s trail. About 9 o’clock the moon became very bright. I followed as quickly as I could until dark. I found my weapons, placed a saddle on my horse and started as fast as possible down the trail taken by Powell. Powell, I knew, was well armed and an experienced soldier. After watching for some time, I decided the three riders must be hostile Indians. I was surprised to see three riders in the same place where I had last seen my friend. Not much later I looked across the valley. The morning Powell left was like all mornings in the deserts of the great Southwest - clear and beautiful. I followed his progress for several hours. He rode his horse down the mountain toward the valley. So we decided Powell should go to the nearest settlement to seek equipment and men to help us with the work. But the work was slow with only two men and not much equipment. He said we had uncovered over $1 million dollars worth of gold in only three months. In the winter of eighteen sixty-five we found rocks that held gold. I spent almost a year searching for gold with another former soldier, Captain James Powell, also of Virginia. I decided the best plan was to search for gold in the great deserts of the American Southwest. At the close of the Civil War I found myself without a home, without money and without work. I can only tell of the ten years my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave. I know the human mind will not believe what it cannot understand. I who have died two times and am still alive. Someday I will die the real death from which there is no escape. ![]() Yet, I feel that I cannot go on living forever. So far as I can remember, I have always been a man of about 30. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. ![]() Jill Robbins developed the video and supplemental materials. The voice of John Carter was Shep O’Neal. At first he is a captive, then a warrior, and after many battles, a prince of a royal family. There, the man meets strange beings and sees strange sights. The book is called “A Princess of Mars.” It is the first book in a series that Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the 1800s. Today, we begin a series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]()
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