Return To America
In California, the Addises and the Shorts lived in a house located on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. His children attended school in the small Los Angeles School House. The women kept house and took in boarders.
When Addis heard of veins of gold and silver in New Mexico and Nevada, he left Los Angeles for the mines, photographing Indian tribes and buying real estate along the way. When he moved to Tucson, Arizona, he became the territorial marshal. His son, then a young man, joined his father in Tucson. A thief who robbed Addis fled to Mexico but was tracked to, Chihuahua, Mexico by Addis and his son. Addis was shot by the thief and died the following day.
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Famous quotes containing the words return to, return and/or america:
“The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.”
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“I will keep America moving forward, always forward—for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light.”
—George Bush (b. 1924)