A Chemehuevi Indian known as "Willie Boy" shot and killed his girlfriend's father and uncle, William Mike, then fled with her, Carlotta Mike, into the desert. Pursued for eleven days, he killed himself on October 7.
Carlota was his cousin, and all the figures in the actual story were Chemehuevi Indians. Willie Boy was 28 years old, Carlotta 16.
The story was novelized in the early Indian Movement era in hte 1969 film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here with Robert Redford, Katherine Ross and Robert Blake Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here with Robert Redford, Katherine Ross and Robert Blake, based on the Harry Lawton novel of 1960.
The actual story has remained largely silent due to tribal taboos on speaking of the dead.
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Saturday, September 25, 1909. A solar storm.
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