CANFIELD Underway at 0645 am. The impoverished little town of Caliente has a restaurant called the Branding Iron but it only can afford to open three days a week and Tuesday is not one of them. I missed my breakfast, got no coffee and left town a bit surly. There is another little eating place called the Silver Café up in Pioche. It is open six days a week, but Tuesday is not one of them. The reason for choosing this route up Hwy 93 was to visit the little community of Eagle Valley. My other great-great grampa, Henry K. Chamberlain, was a pioneer settler there and I was hoping to find a friendly Mormon to show me around the old fort, and maybe see where Henry raised his family. They were all peacefully slumbering though,
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