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On the recordMay 5, 1994
the truth is stranger than fiction. On the eastern side of Nevada where one of these trails is, these people would walk across miles and miles and miles of desert. The first water they came to, the early people did not know, but it was boiling. And they, of course, would come to this water literally dying of thirst. But they could not drink it because it was too hot. They would have to cool it. There were many examples of animals, because of thirst, falling in there and actually being boiled alive. There is a town in Nevada called Gerlach. So as I say, what these people went through--you could not write a book of fiction that would be any more exciting and interesting, and somewhat unbelievable about what these people went through.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Describing the hardships faced by early settlers in Nevada.

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