As such, offing at least one would be “a public service.” He clicked the rifle’s safety off. He viewed coyotes as vermin that stole chickens and thinned the game-bird population. 222 rifle and brought the two animals into his scope. He spotted two coyotes 50 yards away, instinctively lifted his. Steinbeck opened a beer and surveyed the “sun-pounded plain” from the shade of his makeshift camper truck. “I pulled off the road into a small gulley to give him water from my thirty-gallon tank.” “Charley, always a dog for water, panted asthmatically, jarring his whole body with the effort, and a good eight inches of his tongue hung out flat as a leaf and dripping,” he wrote. Route 66 during his navigation of the Mojave's wilderness. Steinbeck was journeying home to Sag Harbor, New York, at this point in his 1960 road trip across America, making his way out of California “by the shortest possible route,” which included a stop along U.S. Hidden in a late chapter of John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley” lies a Mojave Desert tale.
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